"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."
The Medical Museum, No. 26
<u>The Medical Museum: Or, A Repository of Cases, Experiments, Researches, and Discoveries Collected at Home and Abroad</u>, vol. iii (London: Printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1764).