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conjugal ftate, how muft it grieve them, wheit they find the ends of it unanfwered, 
and have room to‘charge their inaptitude to procreation ‘on their own fault | Borh 
hufband and wife, perhaps, may be paffionately defirous of iffue; and the good 
man may think it a defect in himfelf, that their nuptial embraces are perpetually 
fruitlels. But, where a woman can charge herfelf with fuch a courfe of felf-abule, 
as hath fenfibly weakened and debilitated her organs of generation, hath fhe not all 
the reom in the word to be for ever unhappy, in the remembrance of her folly and 
wickednefs ; and to believe, with jultice, that another woman in her cafe would not 
be infertile? How much more tormenting muff it be, if, befides her having ren- 
dered ineffectual the ufe of the marriage-bed, fhe feels in herfelf no inclination to 
the enjoyment of it, and is thereby not only infenfible, as to her own particular, but 
makes imperfect to her hufband that exquifite pleafure which ought to refult from 
their mutual embraces! Suppofing neither of the aforefaid calamities to befal her, 
but that fhe is capable of bringing forth heirs to her hufband, yet, if fhe is con- 
{cious of having weakened her body, and brought on herfelf a miferable train of 
pains and infirmities, what anxiety, what remorfe, mult nota woman endure on that 
account! Every. guilty female, who finds in herfelf any of the difmal fymptoms here 
enumerated, will not readily forget what fenfibly affects her; nor will fhe eafily for- 
give herfelf thofe unnatural fallies, whofe fatal confequences reft heavily upon her, 
and abridge her of half thofe enjoyments, which her fex, her conftitution, and the 
various benefits of nature, had made her capable of partaking. What I have al- 
ready faid;. if duly attended to, will be fufficient to render this practice deteftable ; 
to deter the young, and hitherto innocent, from making themfelves miferable, and 
- to ftop the courfe of thofe who have already advanced far in the road to deftruction. 
A fadden ‘and refolute ftand, to all old offenders, is what I would in the firft place 
ferioufly advife, as the moft effential ftep towards reftoring to themfelves @ found 
conftitution, and that peace of mind, which they cannot otherwife SUSY » There 
re few cafes fo bad, but what, jf taken in any reafonable time, a due regimen, and 
zi ng the Solar and Lunar Tinétures, may be effectual in the relief of. Let 
the ufe of | pBiagtacid a” they will do fo no more. Let them, as much as poffi- . 
the guilty refolve then, that they w no are aS 5 
eee fa eee but efpecially from every action, that may raife 
ble, abftain from ‘every thought, but eipec : ¥ 2 
e, e therm. when any way rempted, reflect on the miferable condi- 
‘cegular defires. Let them, when any way tril Sine f-3 5 : ‘ii 
per "a ss Contamptions, have died terrible examples to all 
tion of many, who, in galloping contumption® ’ ss 2 ot ot whe Hiliacllaae 
Pepepermir er rarer es: © the moft ufual complaints of tho ¢ who have been 
Thole wae er ane reward the weaknefsand infertility of the genitals, they malt 
guilty of this practice regard a which, from, its warm and ftim ating 
have recourfe to the Solar Tintture alone, wh | em: 
| See nares renovate the whole body, how much foever it might be 
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be debilitated, relaxed, and — ne Ried 
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