A treatise on the diseases of females / by William P. Dewees.

  • Dewees, William P. (William Potts), 1768-1841.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of females / by William P. Dewees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    de ses solides exigent plus d'energie et un plus grand aegre d'entensite dans lc cause qui agit sur lui ; mais aussi reflect est plus durable, par la grand resistance que sont en etat d'opposer ses organs, resistance qui le fait souvent succomber. Je compa- rcrois volenticrs, dans ce cas, la femme a ce frele roscau, qui, in- capable de resistance, fl6cb.it humblement la tete sous l'effort de la tempete, et la releve doucement quand le calme est revcnu ; et l'homme a ce chene altier, qui se trouve abattu, par la seule rai- son qu'il est fort et capable de rcsister.* In the sanguiferous system, we may perhaps recognise the united peculiarities of the muscular and nervous systems ; for in that system, we constantly find the circulation carried on with more rapidity, but with less force; the arteries arc smaller, more irritable, and more easily urged into action, and less easily ap- peased, after having been inordinately excited. The veins offer less resistance to any given distending force ; hence, they are more strongly marked upon the surface of the body ; more de- cidedly full, or permanently distended ; and more disposed to become varicose. The arteries have smaller calibers; are quicker in their action ; and, but rarely ossify. The cellular system is more abundant; more flexible ; and more easily distended. It is better supplied with moisture ; and from the compressibility of its texture, permits the blood vessels to divaricate, and pass unrestrainedly in all directions through it. From its abundance, and especially about the articulations of the great joints, and large foldings of the body, a roundness and beauty is given to parts, which in the male are angular, and per- haps even sometimes unsightly. The cutaneous system differs much from that of the male ; for it of itself, almost becomes an object of beauty. Its texture is infinitely finer, more highly polished, and more decidedly trans- parent. It permits the veins to ramify gracefully through its structure ; to be distinctly seen, and thus forming a fine contrast with the white ground on which they repose. It shows from its fineness, to the greatest possible advantage, the arterial termina- tions which so beautifully assemble upon the cheeks. Its sens: bility is much greater; and its sympathies, if not more extensive are certainly more vivid, than in the male. It is also much mor I distensible ; especially that portion of it which covers the abdo- • Maladies des Femraes. Vol. i. p. 40,