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parts are fo ftraitened for want of ufe, that they cannot without difficulty con: 
tribute to the ‘means of generation. Women who are fame alfo, or have their 
limbs diftorted, or their hips depreffed, cannot always lie in fuch a pofture as is ne- 
ceffary for a fit reception of the femen. Too much fat likewife ftops the paflage, 
particularly, when the omentum preffes upon the orifice of the womb, and renders 
the copulation incommodious. And, when a woman is troubled with a cold intem- 
perament of the womb, fhe becomes dull and indifferent as to conjugal embraces, 
in which fhe hardly enjoys any pleafure, or is fo flowly moved, that the inner orifice 
of the womb does not open feafonably to receive the man’s feed. The paffions of 
the mind are-alfo a great hindrance to fertility, efpecially hatred between man and 
wife, whereby the woman, having an averfion to enjoyment, does not fupply {pirits 
fufficient to make the genital parts turgid at the time of coition: nor can the womb 
then kindly meet the efluvium, and draw it into its cavity in a due manner, _ Swel- 
lings, ulcers, callofities, obftru€tions, diftortions of the genital or neighbouring 
parts, may be fo many impediments to the proper reception of the male femen, or its 
Jetention and nutriment after reception. A ftone in the bladder may have the fame 
effect, as maya too gréat moiftnefs and flipperinefs of the womb or vagina, when 
they are filled with excrementitious humours, and rendered too lax. Conception is 
7 jalfo hindered by a hectic, hydropic, or feverith fickly, habit; bya deficiency or ob- 
ftruction of the monthly courfes, when the natural brifknef{s of the blood is wanting; 
_by an immoderate flux of the courfes, which impoverifhes the fluids ; by the whites, 
which, continuing too long, relax the glands of the womb, and drown, as it were, 
“the prolific particles 5 and too often by /ecret venery, which utterly deftroys the tone - 
and vigour of the parts. This may particularly. happen. on the fide of the man, 
ae fince it induces a feminal weaknels, and a want of a proper erection. A virulenr | 
_ gonorrhea or ill-cured venereal cafe, faft living, a worn-out conftitution, and want 
of animal {pirits, or fufficient feed, are ‘fo many obftacles to procreation. Some 
times, indeed, there may be no defeét difcoverable on either fide, and yet the parties 
pain without iffue, notwithftanding their moft earneft endeavours to the contrary, 
n.a,{welling actually appears in the uterine veffels, when the menfes are irregu- 
the whites, have continued long, if, by the ule of proper means, the woman 
ive under thefe circumftances, her own reafon will dictate to her, that 
hen fhe is very fat and bulky, and has room to think her concep- 
> her only way is to correét that vicious habit by a thin fpare 
proper If the lips of the privities, or the entrance of the'va- 
Sina, are clofed, itis a the fight: but, when the orifice of the womnbis thut 
tp, it is difficult to be while the patient is very young, and ‘till her coitrles 
immediate recourfe to the remedies preferibed for thofe particular 
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