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410 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
lose their sensibility to —there pleasure may be merely
the cold, indifferent, or even painful or repulsive recep
tion of the masculine embrace, and still the ovaries may
form their germs, and the uterus may nourish them.
Barrenness in women may proceed from falling or
other displacement of the womb; from the closing of
its mouth; from leucorrhoea or whites, or other diseased
discharge, which may arrest and destroy
sperms ; or it may be caused by inflammation,
the zoo
or ex
cessive irritability of the uterus, by which the embryos
are thrown off in a series of early abortions ; and the
same result may be produced by the frequent excite
ment of amativeness.
The cure of sterility in men in those rare cases in
must come with
which it exists without impotence,
health. Use the same treatment as for dyspepsia, or
masturbation, or scrofula, or whatever may be the con
dition of the patient.
The cure of impotence must be a course of gradual
invigoration. Put the patient into the best of possible
healthy conditions, and the cure will come. As he gains
in general vigor, there should be the natural incitements
to amativeness.
The company and friendly intercourse of strong and
affectionate women, the moderate indulgence of the
sentiment of voluptuousness, will favor a cure, by gently
directing the current of life into the cerebellum, and its
special organs.
The impotence of women requires corresponding
treatment, with bathing, the sitz-bath, the wet bandage,
and the vagina syringe ; there should be combined, if
possible, the love, the magnetism, and the tender