The Perfumed Garden
Chapter 14 - [Some Causes of Female Infertility]
Know, O Vizir (God be good to you!), that wise physicians have plunged into this sea of difficulties
to very little purpose. Each one has looked at the matter from his own point of view,
and in the end the question has been left in the dark.
Amongst the causes which determine the sterility of women may be taken the obstruction of the uterus by clots of blood,
the accumulation of water, the want of or defective sperm of the man, organic malformation of the parts of the latter,
internal defects in the uterus, stagnation of the courses and the corruption of the menstrual fluid,
and the habitual presence of wind in the uterus. Other savants attribute the sterility of women
to the action of spirits and spells. Sterility is common in women who are very corpulent,
so that their uterus gets compressed and cannot conceive, not being able to take up the sperm,
especially if the husband's member is short and his testicles are very fat;
in such a case the act of copulation can only be imperfectly completed.
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