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of neighboring parts or even of the uterus itself: they subside due to cold densifying and astringent substances being applied. For the retentive power is strengthened to such a degree that it no longer receives blood. For the secondary cause, on account of which blood breaks forth through the uterus, is the weakness of the uterus.

XXXII.
Blood is suppressed by a fault of the uterus when the uterus is affected either as a similar part or as a dissimilar part.

XXXIII.
As a similar part, it is affected by intemperance, most especially cold, and also dry, whence it becomes harder.

XXXIV.
As a dissimilar part, when the uterus becomes denser, and this especially from astringents. Furthermore, there are other diseases in poor composition which affect its cervix in particular, such as when it is twisted, when an excrescence of flesh is present, when some little membrane grows upon it, and finally when a tumor is present that compresses it.

XXXV.
From these very fountains of causes, manifold differences—which, sparing time, I omit—can be drawn by the best method. Now let us come to the signs.

XXXVI.
Whether the blood is deficient simply or in a certain respect is gathered from this: if any part becomes more swollen, or if it breaks forth from the nostrils or from another part, the blood is deficient in a certain respect: if these are absent, the blood is deficient simply.

XXXVII.
But whether it is deficient simply due to external or internal errors is gathered from the fact that external ones are known from the sick or those standing by: if they deny these, the error will be internal.