An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Wallace, James Westwood, 1768 or 1769-1838.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( « ) difcharge is not more often immoderate, when we reflecl: that it proceeds from the open mouths of perhaps a half million of veffels. This organization fo curious and interefting is evidently neceffary to enable the fyftem to effectuate that phenomenon called the menfes. II. From the mouths of the uterine arteries that difcharge of blood called the catamenia is poured fourth. This flux appears defigned for the fupport of that condition of the uterus which enables it to retain and fupport the im- pregnated ovum. III. The menfes is a difcharge of pure arterial blood from the uterine arteries. They appear at puberty, and return at Hated periods, and ceafe in advanced life. Though the various morbid affections to which the fex is liable, in- terrupt the courfe and vary the quantity, they are generally abfent during pregnancy and lac- tation : They are considered as peculiar to the human female. * IV. Con- * Some have afterted that a certain fpeciesof monkey men-- ftruate, but this is doubtful.