Apo kōpēs eis to bēma: Positiones Peri tēs tōn katamēniōn epochēs

LVIII.
If a tumor is the cause, let the cure also be taken from there, and so in the rest, each will be cured from its own place.

LIX.
If women are not purged due to fullness, a vein must be cut, with others indicating and granting phlebotomy bloodletting, nor is the evacuation to be postponed for them.

LX.
However, which vein is to be cut is not agreed upon between Galen and Aëtius. For the former, in his book On the Method of Curing through Phlebotomy, chapter 15, wishes for the veins of the ankle or the popliteal to be cut. The latter, in book 16, chapter 57, teaches that the veins of both the elbow and the ankle are to be opened.

LXI.
Their diversity can be reconciled. For if the indications regard the uterus, only the lower ones are to be struck: but if the whole body, the upper ones also are to be cut. Or, if the repletion is moderate, it is enough to open the internal ones: but if the repletion is great and redounds in the whole, with the strengths consenting, the veins of the elbow can also be cut.

LXII.
In place of phlebotomy, we can sometimes use cupping glasses: which are considered in two ways, both scarified and without scarification. We use scarified ones if we cannot cut a vein, as in those who have hidden and small veins: and they are applied to the popliteal, the legs, the ankles, and, in sum, to the lower parts.

LXIII.
We apply the non-scarified ones if the blood is toward the uterus.