Theses de suppressis mensibus

XXV.
The blood is suppressed by a defect of the uterus when the uterus suffers, most of all, from an intemperance that is cold, or dry, or a combination of both.

XXVI.
Sometimes it also occurs when the uterus becomes denser, whether from a callus arising in the mouth of the uterus or from an outgrowth of flesh; sometimes from an abundance of fat; in some women, due to a small membrane grown around the orifice of the uterus; in others, because of a significant tumor by which the openings of the vessels are obstructed, the menses are suppressed.

XXVII.
In some women, after a miscarriage, the mouth of the uterus becomes ulcerated, and because it is covered by a scar, the excretion of blood is impeded.

XXVIII.
The uterine veins themselves also provide a cause for suppression while they coalesce excessively on account of a healed ulcer, or are compressed by a tumor of the adjacent parts or of the uterus itself, or are obstructed by thick, sluggish, viscous, and abundant material, or are narrowed by reason of drying heat, or contract from the use of astringent and cold-condensing agents.

XXIX.
The menses are also stopped because of excessive fatness or thinness. For in fat women, because of narrow small veins, there is very little blood, as it passes for the most part into fat, and therefore they are more bloodless than the rest. The thinner women, however, because of some long-standing wasting disease, contain no superfluous blood at all.