AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY. rit 
‘Having before cautioned againft the too frequent ufe of venery, efpecially for thofe 
‘who feem to beinfertile through weaknefs, it will be proper jutt to hint the moit 
aufpicious feafons for performing the conjugal att to good purpofe, It has been 
found, that, though a woman may conceive at any time during the three weeks that 
ber courfes are entirely off, yet fhe is more apt to do fo immediately after their 
-ceafing, than at. any other time between the periods of their return. ‘This hint may 
be made ufe of by-weakly people, where the man and the woman are both equally 
prudent and temperate, When. the lips of the privities grow together, they are 
cautioufly to be feparated by incifion, and the fides kept afunder for fome time by 
rags dipped im a proper ointment. And, ifthe mouth of the womb fhould happen 
to be clofed, a proper peflary of cork, cafed over with wax, may be introduced te 
keepitopen,, But, the affiftance of a fkilful furgeon being always neceflary in thefe 
extraordinary cafes, I choofe not to infift on them any lenger. 1 fhall add only afew 
words, dire€ted peculiarly to the men, who find themfelves incapable to propagate 
their fpecies, though they have not any natural defect in the inftraments of genera- 
tion: for, as to-ebfolute impotency and incapacity of copelation, as ic mutt be ma- 
nifeft to the fight, either from the want of erection, or due proportion of the pests, 
or a deficiency of the tefticles, fo it is what no man will preténdto cures on which 
e wife a remedy, where there can be mone for the 
huthand, by allowing her tofue out a divorce, and merry another mean. e fimple 
leet, brought on by {elf-pollution, is one of the greateft caufes of infuthiciency. a 
knefs, and oftentimes paininthe 
and without help efually terminates in that 
or-confumption of the back. Ik 
Pua soning ofa clear feminal matter, which diftinguifhes it from an impure 
isa conftant oozing of = pai ie aMbled ith this fhockisg, complaint, vither 
from natural infirmity, : pened a | 
cies, till fuch time as he is perfectly cured; for, befides that his endeavours would 
‘the whole body.of phylic for this dangerexs diftemper, 
dered fom copulation, bu even from foe 
itfelf,, -In.both thefe cafes, as well of the Solar Tincture, with eee 
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