It is a surprising circumstance that the males only are subject to this strange affection, and that all of them are not liable to it. The Medical Repository - Page 3 edited by - 1803 Full view - About this book
...the males only are subject to this strange affection, and that not all of them are liable to it.... Although the females are exempt, they are still capable of transmitting it to their male children. Medical Repository HEMORRHOIDS Hippocrates; [460-375 BC] 1267 If bile or phlegm be determined to the...