The Female Physician / Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.

by John Maubray

Continuóque avidis ubi subdita flamma Medullis,

Vere magis (quia vere calor redit ossibus) illæ

Ore omnes versæ in Zephyrum stant rupibus altis,

Exceptantque leves Auras, & sæpe sine ullis,

Conjugiis vento gravidæ, mirabile dictu,

Diffugiunt.——

AND thus at last having particularly, treated of all the distinct and different sorts of Conception, to which the Woman can be subject; I come now in the next place, to address my self to Her, who was never yet capable of any Conception; and that in the Chapter and Manner following, viz.

CHAP. IX.
Of the Sterility or Barrenness of Women.