IT is also call’d _Febris Amatoria_; I suppose, (partly) because of the _Colour_, according to the _POET_; _Palleat omnis Amans_, _Color hic eft aptus Amanti_: And (partly) because of the _Age_, which may be the fittest _Time_ for LOVE; which made _Diogenes_ say, at sight of a certain _Patient_, That _she was dead in her OWN_, _but alive in ANOTHER Body_: As it is otherwise denominated _Icterus Albus_; because, as in an _Icterus_ or _JAUNDICE_, the whole _Body_ is tinctur’d _yellow_: So in this _Disorder_, it is changed _Pale_ and _Wan_; and from hence it is commonly call’d the _GREEN-SICKNESS_, because of the _Colour_ and _Aspect_ inclining a little that way. As it is likewise also term’d, _Fœdus seu pallidus Virginum Color_, or the _ugly pale Colour of languishing VIRGINS_. HOWEVER yet I have known many _Women_, in _France_, and _Germany_, who have been so far from thinking it an ugly _Colour_, that they have esteem’d it most _Beautiful_; and have used very _pernicious Things_ to gain and appropriate this _Colour_ to Themselves: Esteeming _Fresh-looking-Women_, of a fine sanguine _Complexion_, mere _RUSTICKS_. THIS disagreeable _Affection_ of the Body, however it is _titled_, most certainly implies a _Complication of several different Maladies_; annoying all the _Actions_ of the _Natural_, and _Motions_ of the _Animal Faculty_: Or, in short, perverting the whole OECONOMY of the _Body_. And because it is always join’d with _Most_, if not with _All_ the following SYMPTOMS, I think it may be regularly thus defin’d. THE _VIRGIN-DISEASE, is a Change of the natural Colour of the Face into a pallid greenish Tincture; with a Dejection of Strength, Gravity of all the Members and Parts of the Body, Fastidy of Victuals, Malacia or Pica, Heaviness and Palpitation of Heart, Difficulty of Breathing, a slow Fever, Pains of the Head, Melancholy, Inflations, and Oedematous Tumours of the Feet, Legs, Eye-lids, and the whole Face; with a frigid Intemperature, and Cachexy of the whole Body; proceeding from a deprav’d Nutrition, and the abundance of crude Humours, ingender’d from a perverse Disposition of the_ LIVER, SPLEEN, _or_ VENTRICLE. HENCE proceed the _OBSTRUCTIONS_ of the _Uterine Vessels_, and neighbouring _Parts_, of the _Veins_ of the _LIVER_, and _SPLEEN_; but especially, of the _MESENTERY_: So that the _natural Calidity_ of the whole _Body_ being thus suffocated, and oppressed, by those _crude Humours_, an Irregularity, or Suppression of the _MENSTRUA_, must needs ensue. BY this _Definition_, the _DISEASE_ may easily be known; tho’ in some _Circumstances_, it may differ, according to the different _Quality_ of the predominant _Humour_: Especially considering, that if all the foremention’d _Signs_, or _Symptoms_, do not concur in all _PATIENTS_; yet _Most_ of them commonly do happen in most _Persons_, and ALL in _Some_. Whence I come _methodically_ to denote more particularly its CAUSES.