Theses medicae de suppressione mensium

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THESIS I.

What the Latins call the suppression of menses, the Greeks call epochen emmenon e katamenion retention of the monthly flow: which we now propose to discuss.

II.

The menses, which among animals only the woman possesses, have their name because they are accustomed to happen to women every month, as long as they are fit for conception: by some they are called flowers: because a tree emitting flowers is mostly apt to produce fruit: and so a woman having menses at set times can procreate children.

III.

The menses are a flow of blood through the neck of the uterus cervix, occurring every month (unless the woman has conceived).

IV.

They begin to flow in most in the fourteenth year: in few before the thirteenth, or at the 12th; in most they first erupt after the 14th.

V.

The time during which these flow extends to two or three days, for not a few up to the fifth, for others to the seventh, rarely up to the 12th.

VI.

Furthermore, they cease around the forty-fifth year, in others later: yet they scarcely last above 50: but they also stop in some around the 30th year of age, especially in the obese.

Handwritten marginalia: Against the Second: If women suffer from months, then they suffer at one and the same time; therefore, they do not suffer at one specific? time. Therefore they have menses.
Assumed premise: If the months are moved by the stars, especially by the moon, everyone suffers at the same time, but they are moved at different? times. Therefore everyone suffers at one time, which is false: nature does not regulate? the months.