36. When the menstrual discharge is of a bad color and irregular, it
indicates that the woman stands in need of purging.

37. In a pregnant woman, if the breasts suddenly lose their
fullness, she has a miscarriage.

38. If, in a woman pregnant with twins, either of her breasts lose
its fullness, she will part with one of her children; and if it be the
right breast which becomes slender, it will be the male child, or if
the left, the female.

39. If a woman who is not with child, nor has brought forth, have
milk, her menses are obstructed.

40. In women, blood collected in the breasts indicates madness.

41. If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her
hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken
supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with
child, but otherwise she is not pregnant.

42. A woman with child, if it be a male, has a good color, but if a
female, she has a bad color.

43. If erysipelas of the womb seize a woman with child, it will
probably prove fatal.

44. Women who are very lean, have miscarriages when they prove
with child, until they get into better condition.

45. When women, in a moderate condition of body, miscarry in the
second or third month, without any obvious cause, their cotyledones
are filled with mucosity, and cannot support the weight of the foetus,
but are broken asunder.

46. Such women as are immoderately fat, and do not prove with child,
in them it is because the epiploon (fat?) blocks up the mouth of the
womb, and until it be reduced, they do not conceive.

47. If the portion of the uterus seated near the hip-joint
suppurate, it gets into a state requiring to be treated with tents.

48. The male foetus is usually seated in the right, and the female
in the left side.

49. To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a
sternutatory, and shut the nostrils and mouth.

50. If you wish to stop the menses in a woman, apply as large a
cupping instrument as possible to the breasts.

51. When women are with child, the mouth of their womb is closed.

52. If in a woman with child, much milk flow from the breasts, it
indicates that the foetus is weak; but if the breasts be firm, it
indicates that the foetus is in a more healthy state.

53. In women that are about to miscarry, the breasts become slender;
but if again they become hard, there will be pain, either in the
breasts, or in the hip-joints, or in the eyes, or in the knees, and
they will not miscarry.

54. When the mouth of the uterus is hard, it is also necessarily