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of urine; swelling in the hypogastric region; acute pain all
over the abdomen; distension of the bladder; a sallow sweat
on the tenth day; vomitings of phlegm, then of bile; coldness
of the whole body, but especially of the feet: but, if the mischief
spread farther, there come on fevers attended with hiccup,
pulse irregularly frequent and small, redness of the countenance,
thirst, distress of mind, delirium, spasms. From deleterious
substances, such as cantharides and buprestis, both the
bladder is distended with flatus, and the whole belly suffers
violence; and all things get worse, and death cannot be long
delayed.
The bladder also sometimes suffers from hemorrhage; the
blood there is bright and thin, but the patients never die from
it, although it may not be easy to stop. But from the clots
and the inflammation there is danger; for the coldness, mortification,
gangrene, and the other evils consequent upon it
readily prove fatal.
Winter and autumn bring on these diseases. As to age,
manhood, but still more old age. The other seasons and
periods of life do not generally produce the diseases, and they
very rarely prove fatal. Of all others, infants are most free
from danger.
CHAPTER XI. ON HYSTERICAL SUFFOCATION
IN the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female
viscus, closely resembling an animal; for it is moved of itself
hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line
to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the
right or to the left, either to the liver or spleen; and it likewise
is subject to prolapsus downwards, and, in a word, it is
