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Page xvi - Traité d'Hippocrate, des airs, des eaux et des lieux; traduction nouvelle, avec le texte grec collationné sur deux manuscrits, des notes critiques, historiques et médicales, un discours préliminaire, un tableau comparatif des vents anciens et modernes, une carte géographique et les index nécessaires, par CORAY, docteur en médecine de la ci-devant Faculté de Montpellier; 2 vol.
Page 3 - The reason that the man feels more pleasure is that the secretion from the bodily fluid in his case occurs suddenly, and as the result of a more violent disturbance than in the woman's case. Another point about women: if they have intercourse with men their health is better than if they do not. For in the first place, the womb is moistened by intercourse, whereas when the womb is drier than it should be it becomes extremely contracted, and this extreme contraction causes pain to the body. In the...
Page 350 - Goethe, intends to speak as a philosopher, rather than as a poet, when he writes that " with good reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth, taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun.
Page 2 - ... time, until the man ejaculates. If her desire for intercourse is excited, she emits before the man, and for the remainder of the time she does not feel pleasure to the same extent; but if she is not in a state of excitement, then her pleasure terminates along with that of the man. What happens is like this: if into boiling water you pour another quantity of water which is cold, the water stops boiling. In the same way, the man's sperm arriving in the womb extinguishes both the heat and the pleasure...
Page 2 - In the case of women, it is my contention that when during intercourse the vagina is rubbed and the womb is disturbed, an irritation is set up in the womb which produces pleasure and heat in the rest of the body. A woman also releases something from her body, sometimes into the womb, which then becomes moist, and sometimes externally as well, if the womb is open wider than normal. Once intercourse has begun, she experiences pleasure throughout the whole time, until the man ejaculates. If her desire...
Page 3 - ... 5. When a woman has intercourse, if she is not going to conceive, then it is her practice to expel the sperm produced by both partners whenever she wishes to do so. If however she is going to conceive, the sperm is not expelled, but remains in the womb. For when the womb has received the sperm it closes up and retains it, because the moisture causes the womb's orifice to contract.
Page 7 - Now this girl had heard the sort of thing women say to each other - that when a women is going to conceive, the seed remains inside her and does not fall out. She digested this information, and kept a watch. One day she noticed that the seed had not come out again. She told her mistress, and the story came to me. When I heard it, I told her to jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her heels at each leap. After she had done this no more than seven...
Page 9 - ... insert through the pipe earth, sand and fine filings of lead. Now pour in water, and blow through the pipe. First of all the ingredients will be thoroughly mixed up with the water, but after you have blown for a time, the lead will move towards the lead, the sand towards the sand, and the earth towards the earth. Now allow the ingredients to dry out and examine them by cutting around the bladder: you will find that like ingredients have gone to join like.
Page xix - Etymologicon Magnum seu verius lexicon saepissime vocabulorum origines indagans ex pluribus lexicis scholiastis et grammaticis anonymi cuiusdam opera concinnatum (Oxford, 1848), which also contains Musurus' preface and poem on the Cretan role in printing.
Page 7 - ... 13. As a matter of fact I myself have seen an embryo which was aborted after remaining in the womb for six days. It is upon its nature, as I observed it then, that I base the rest of my inferences. It was in the following way that I came to see a six-day-old embryo. A kinswoman of mine owned a very valuable danseuse, whom she employed as a prostitute. It was important that this girl should not become pregnant and thereby lose her value. Now this girl had heard the sort of thing women say to each...
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| Title | The Hippocratic Treatises, "On Generation," "On the Nature of the Child," "Diseases IV": A Commentary Volume 7 of Ars Medica Ars medica: Griechisch-lateinische Medizin, ISSN 0571-1355 |
| Authors | Iain M. Lonie, Hippocrates |
| Editors | Iain M. Lonie, Gerhard Baader, Klaus D. Fischer, Charles Lichtenthaeler, Fridolf Kudlien |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter, 1981 |
| ISBN | 3110079038, 9783110079036 |
| Length | 406 pages |
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