"For when the hostile army rushes in at the windows of the body, and certain battalions of perturbations have so entered the castle of the mind, that the soul is taken captive, as it were, and oppressed beyond measure, sure, by troops of affections proceeding from the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, then, by the sole dilatation or reclusion of the womb, we see inflammations of that part, convulsions, epilepsies, apoplexies, and other calamitous disorders arise after the lochia are suppressed, which never cease their pernicious effects, till themselves or the lying-in women are totally destroyed."
— Anonymous
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark
Date
1764
Metaphor
"For when the hostile army rushes in at the windows of the body, and certain battalions of perturbations have so entered the castle of the mind, that the soul is taken captive, as it were, and oppressed beyond measure, sure, by troops of affections proceeding from the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, then, by the sole dilatation or reclusion of the womb, we see inflammations of that part, convulsions, epilepsies, apoplexies, and other calamitous disorders arise after the lochia are suppressed, which never cease their pernicious effects, till themselves or the lying-in women are totally destroyed."
Metaphor in Context
In order to guard against any dangers before hand, it would he necessary for lying-in women in some sort to quiet their senses, and to have their voluble ideas and passions as it were overloaded with fetters. For when the hostile army rushes in at the windows of the body, and certain battalions of perturbations have so entered the castle of the mind, that the soul is taken captive, as it were, and oppressed beyond measure, sure, by troops of affections proceeding from the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, then, by the sole dilatation or reclusion of the womb, we see inflammations of that part, convulsions, epilepsies, apoplexies, and other calamitous disorders arise after the lochia are suppressed, which never cease their pernicious effects, till themselves or the lying-in women are totally destroyed.
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Citation
The Medical Museum: Or, A Repository of Cases, Experiments, Researches, and Discoveries Collected at Home and Abroad, vol. iii (London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1764).
Date of Entry
04/25/2012
