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The uterus comes under the consideration of the Physician in two ways: one, insofar as it is a part of the body; the other, insofar as it possesses its own proper and particular actions.

II.

Insofar as it is a part of the body, it is liable to the same diseases that commonly infest other parts, namely, intemperance, organic affections, and the dissolution of unity.

III.

Insofar as it has something proper, it is again considered in two ways: both insofar as it serves the preservation of the woman, and insofar as it contributes to the propagation of the species.

IIII.

It aids the preservation of the woman insofar as it evacuates the excrements of the whole body, whether they are redundant in the body, at fixed periods. It is useful for the preservation of the species insofar as it is an instrument of conception, gestation, and parturition.

V.

But in this disputation, we will omit the remaining functions of the uterus, and we will deal only with that which evacuates the redundancy every month.

VI.

This action of it is damaged in three ways. For it either evacuates nothing at all, or deficiently, or depravedly.

VII.

When it evacuates nothing, we say the menses are suppressed or hindered. When they do not exit in the just quantity, we affirm its action to be weakened or diminished.

VIII.

Depraved excretion is threefold. For it either redundantly flows simply, hence the flowing of the menses term: mensium profluuium menstrual overflow/menorrhagia; or with difficulty