Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . 16. 182 POPULAR TREATISE Leucorrhoea is often attended with barrenness; at allevents, it is very debilitating, and thus impedes notion once prevailed, that women who did not men-struate could not conceive; it has since been disproved,except in those instances where menstruation never occur-red : a single monthly discharge indicates an aptitude forconception. It is obser
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . 16. 182 POPULAR TREATISE Leucorrhoea is often attended with barrenness; at allevents, it is very debilitating, and thus impedes notion once prevailed, that women who did not men-struate could not conceive; it has since been disproved,except in those instances where menstruation never occur-red : a single monthly discharge indicates an aptitude forconception. It is observed that barren women have verysmall breasts. Women who are very fat are often barren,for their corpulence either exists as a mark of weaknessof the system, or it depends upon a want of activity in theovaria : thus spayed or castrated animals generally becomefat. The same remarks apply to the male kind, who areoutrageously corpulent. There are many other peculiari-ties in matrimonial life, fertile subjects for speculation ;such as, for instance, the lapse of time that often occursafter marriage before conception takes place, and thespace between each act of gestation ; the solution of whichmay be, that these oc
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