The principles and practice of midwifery / completed and corrected by James Sims.

  • Foster, Edward, -1780.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery / completed and corrected by James Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    relapfe, by avoiding all the caufes (CXXXVI.); by exercife, air, regimen, and compofure ; by ftrengthening the ner- vous fyftem, with the ufe of tonics, joined with warm hyfteric medicines. IMPOTENCE OF COITION. CXXXIX. An Impotence of Coition is the incapacity of having the venereal or^ gafm (XLIX.) excited, by the male penis; CXL. Its <:aufes are preceding difor- Sers of the organs of generation ; general diforder; extreme relaxation of the organs; preternatural infenfibility of them; manu- flupratlon; paralyfis. CXLL Its fymptoms are flaccldity of the parts; want of their natural fenfations; and fterililty. CXLII. The Indications of cure are, i* To remove the caufes. 2. To excite fen- fibility, by ftrengtheneirs, and ftimulants. STERILITY. CXLIII. Sterility is an incapacity of conception (LI.) CXLIV.