47
If the portion of the uterus seated near the hip-joint suppurate, it gets into a state requiring to be treated with tents.
48
The male foetus is usually seated in the right, and the female in the left side.
49
To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a sternutatory, and shut the nostrils and mouth.
50
If you wish to stop the menses in a woman, apply as large a cupping instrument as possible to the breasts.
51
When women are with child, the mouth of their womb is closed.
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.
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.
54
When the mouth of the uterus is hard, it is also necessarily shut.
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.
56
In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and deliquium come on, it is bad.
57
When the menses are excessive, diseases take place, and when the menses are stopped, diseases from the uterus take place.
