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XXXVIII.
Whether the fault is from the whole or from a part is perceived from the affection of some certain part, such as consumption of the lung. But the whole is affected by intemperance, whether febrile or non-febrile, etc.

XXXIX.
We are taught that the matter sins in quality, not in quantity, if the aforementioned signs are absent, and if signs of a colder stomach or liver are perhaps present, and if external causes have preceded.

XL.
It is conjectured that the veins of the uterus are at fault if preceding causes have been external: if not, the veins which pertain to the uterus are at fault: just as in fevers not only these but other veins of the body suffer from obstruction: so also in a thick diet.

XLI.
We understand the veins to have coalesced if an ulcer preceded: compressed, if a tumor is present: subsided, if the use of cooling and densifying substances preceded. If none of these are present, the cause of the narrowing will be obstruction.

XLII.
Signs of blood that is copious, thick, and viscous are easily detected from the antecedents and consequents.

XLIII.
If a woman, who is neither pregnant nor has given birth, has milk, her menses have failed. Hippocrates, book 5, aphorism 39.

XLIIII.
With no milk appearing in the breasts, Galen, book 6, On Affected Parts, chapter 4, there is a heaviness molesting the whole body, loathing of food occurs, an unequal horror with fever sometimes follows, and if the mouth of the uterus is closed, it will be present with a certain hardness, because of which they differ from those who have conceived.