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XLV.
In some, pain with heaviness in the region of the uterus occurs, sometimes in one part, sometimes in the other: furthermore, the pain passes into the hip, and the leg itself which is on that side limps while walking. Furthermore, there is pain of the loins, neck, and sinciput, which also infests the foundations of the eyes.

XLVI.
Likewise burning fevers and urine that is thick, reddish, turbid, and blackening, and depositing a red rot as if someone had mixed in the soot of the water from which freshly slaughtered meat had been washed: in some, the urine is either passed with difficulty or is suppressed altogether, the face is discolored, etc.

XLVII.
If menses are suppressed for a longer time, and the physician does not promote any evacuation for the woman, some tumor beyond nature sometimes arises in the flanks: in some, a swelling is also excited in the extreme part of the flanks. Galen, book 6, On Affected Parts, chapter 4.

XLIIX.
A more prolonged suppression of menses often becomes the cause of the most grave ailments: for sometimes from this arise massive pains of the gout, joints, head, back, and loins, tumors of the viscera, fainting, dropsy, suffocation of the womb hysterical or convulsive symptoms formerly attributed to the displacement of the uterus, pains like colic and nephritic pains, difficult breathing, coughs, melancholic passions, vertigoes of the head,