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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    The operation of the male upon the female organs, produces this effedt naturally, and Without the confent or delire of the woman, merely by the motion which is excited in the * parts, and has its confequences according to their conftrudtion: and in the fame manner thefe animate or inanimate implements may produce as much of the effedt as relates to them: They certainly do occafion the tube to rife and apply its open end to the eggs ; and whether one of them falls in or not, is owing not to any thing in the mere perform¬ ance of the operation, but to their being or not being in a condition to drop off. Naturally they are not fo; becaufe the courfe of nature is, that an animalcule fhould be lodged in them to produce the effedt: but accidentally they may, and do fometimes fall off into the tube, and pafing thence into the womb, without an animalcule, they occafion this effedt. There is always fome danger in thefe J - C/ cafes: and often a great deal. When they happen to young women, the fubftance fel- dom lies within them more than eight, nine, or ten months : but when women who are more advanced in life*, are guilty of thefe beaftly \