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of neighboring parts or even of the uterus itself: they subside when cold, thickening, and astringent agents are applied. For the retentive power is strengthened to such a degree that it no longer receives blood. For the secondary cause, on account of which blood erupts through the uterus, is the weakness of the uterus.

XXXII.
Blood is suppressed by a vice of the uterus when the uterus is affected either as a similar part or as a dissimilar part.

XXXIII.
As a similar part, it is affected by intemperance, and especially by a cold and also dry one, whence it becomes harder.

XXXIV.
As a dissimilar part, when the uterus becomes denser, and this especially from astringents. Furthermore, there are other diseases in its composition which affect its neck in particular, such as when it is twisted, when an excrescence of flesh is present, when some little membrane grows upon it, and finally when a compressing tumor is present.

XXXV.
From these very fountains of causes, manifold differences—which I omit to save time—can be derived by an excellent method. Now let us come to the signs.

XXXVI.
Whether the blood is deficient simply or in a certain respect is gathered from this: if some part is more swollen, or if it bursts forth from the nostrils or another part, the blood is deficient in a certain respect; if these are absent, the blood is deficient simply.

XXXVII.
Whether it is deficient simply due to external or internal errors is gathered from the fact that external ones are known from the patient or