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Part 49
To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a sternutatory,
and shut the nostrils and mouth.
Part 50
If you wish to stop the menses in a woman, apply as large a cupping
instrument as possible to the breasts.
Part 51
When women are with child, the mouth of their womb is closed.
Part 52
If in a woman with child, much milk flow from the breasts, it
indicates that the foetus is weak; but if the breasts be firm, it
indicates that the foetus is in a more healthy state.
Part 53
In women that are about to miscarry, the breasts become slender;
but if again they become hard, there will be pain, either in the breasts,
or in the hip-joints, or in the eyes, or in the knees, and they will
not miscarry.
Part 54
When the mouth of the uterus is hard, it is also necessarily shut.
Part 55
Women with child who are seized with fevers, and who are greatly
emaciated, without any (other?) obvious cause, have difficult and
dangerous labors, and if they miscarry, they are in danger.
Part 56
In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and
deliquium come on, it is bad.
Part 57
When the menses are excessive, diseases take place, and when the
menses are stopped, diseases from the uterus take place.
Part 58
Strangury supervenes upon inflammation of the rectum, and of the
womb, and strangury supervenes upon suppuration of the kidney, and
hiccup upon inflammation of the liver.
Part 59
If a woman do not conceive, and wish to ascertain whether she
can conceive, having wrapped her up in blankets, fumigate below, and
if it appear that the scent passes through the body to the nostrils
and mouth, know that of herself she is not unfruitful.
Part 60
If woman with a child have her courses, it is impossible that
the child can be healthy.
Part 61
If a woman's courses be suppressed, and neither rigor nor fever
has followed, but she has been affected with nausea, you may reckon
her to be with child.
Part 62
Women who have the uterus cold and dense (compact?) do not conceive;
and those also who have the uterus humid, do not conceive, for the
semen is extinguished, and in women whose