A letter from a male physician in the country, to the author of the female physician in London; : plainly shewing, that for ingenuity, probity, and extraordinary productions, he far surpasses the author of the narrative. To which is added, a short dissertation upon generation, whereby every child-bearing woman may be satisfied, that 'tis as impossible for women to generate and bring forth rabbets, as 'tis impossible for rabbets to bring forth women.

Date:
1726
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Credit: A letter from a male physician in the country, to the author of the female physician in London; : plainly shewing, that for ingenuity, probity, and extraordinary productions, he far surpasses the author of the narrative. To which is added, a short dissertation upon generation, whereby every child-bearing woman may be satisfied, that 'tis as impossible for women to generate and bring forth rabbets, as 'tis impossible for rabbets to bring forth women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thefe by Fomentation cherilh the whole Corpo¬ ration. O N the Embryo’s Formation^ p. zo. The Animation.^ p. 24. The Infant’s Matu¬ ration^ p, 2p. with their times of Spumificati- on^ La6lation^ Coagulation^ and times of Li¬ ne ation^ Ramification^ or Carnification^ when the Embryo receives the Name of Fxtus. O N the Powers of Imagination^ p. y8. fp. where the fudden Franfmutation^ by the force Saltation^ at a Dancing-Bout of Recreation^ made fuch an Alteration^ as amaz’d the good Women, who were turn’d into Men, O N your Reafons of the Child’s Likenefs, from the Mother’s Imagination in the time of Copulation^ p^6^^ In p. 49. Ch. 4. of Love, there you fhew, if any want to know, what is Love’s Confummation^ deferibed at large in your Ch, f. p. of Copulation^ Ch. 6, Re¬ marks upon Copulation^ p. yi. That in Con- greflion, they might be mutually charm’d, for many Griefs Compenfiation. Thefe Con- jund:ions of both Sexes, thefe Completions of our unbounded PafTions, thefe DeGres of Pro¬ creation^ with the fuitable means of Generation.^ may be all feen at large, and read, by the Mo- deft, without Blufti, or Perturbation. * P. 140, * And further, (which is very remarkable) That Women have been turn'd into Men, which fome would perfuade us to believe to be an EfFeil of the Force of a vehement Imagination acting upon the Soul, with which it is of a near Atiinity beyond all the Power of Senfe. As