The nature and causes of impotence in men, and barrenness in women, explained : with the methods by which it may be known in any case on whose part the imperfection lies; and instructions for the prevention and remedy: particularly the genuine receipt for the Turkish electuary ...; and compleat and plain directions for a lady's managing herself in the nicest article of her health ... / By G. Archibald Douglas.

  • Douglas, G. Archibald.
Date:
1772
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Credit: The nature and causes of impotence in men, and barrenness in women, explained : with the methods by which it may be known in any case on whose part the imperfection lies; and instructions for the prevention and remedy: particularly the genuine receipt for the Turkish electuary ...; and compleat and plain directions for a lady's managing herself in the nicest article of her health ... / By G. Archibald Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taints it with its acrimony; and cancerous ha¬ bits affedt it with their poifon. In the two firft of thefe cafes, the animalcules are faint and lan¬ guid 3 in the two latter, they are deflroyed. People in the jaundice, or of melancholy habits, fhould not attempt to propogate chil¬ dren ; for they will be weak and imperfedt: and in the two other cafes they will attempt in vain. There are ftages of the pox which are not infe&ious; which yet render generation impof- fible; though they do not deprive men of the feeming power. A latent cancerous humour in the blood is alfo often the caufe of the fame mifchief, long before it appears. Confumptive fathers in this manner beget confumptive chil¬ dren; and it is thus the evil, and perhaps the le- profy, are entailed upon fucceeding generations. * The fadt is known; but none has been able to give an account of it: nor can it be explain¬ ed otherwife, than upon this fyftem. But thus it is evident to reafon. The produdtion of the infant, depends upon a rudiment of a child in this liquor of the father. When he is healthy, that rudiment is alfo healthy, and it will grow to a robuft man : but the difeafes of the hu¬ man body can affedt this liquor as much as its pther juices, Some of them infedt the animal- C % cules ;