MOREOVER, we find that the very best of the _Ancients_ have been at great Pains, in distinguishing exactly the _curable_, from the _incurable_ BARREN WOMB: Yea _Hippocrates_, _Galen_, &c. have given certain Directions, founded upon the solid _Truths_ of their Immense Knowledge and Heavenly Wisdom, to try and discover the _One_ from the _Other_; as _they_ have also taught us to Judge of every particular _Cause_ affecting the _Curable_ WOMB. But to facilitate these Nice _Discoveries_, I shall subjoin some few _Diagnostick Signs_; because except we know the particular _Cause_, we can never pretend to remove it, and without removing the _Cause_, the _Effect_ can never cease, or be _cured_. Not but that—— I KNOW, that the ingenious _Physician_, undertaking this _Cure_, requires none of my _Instructions_; which notwithstanding, I hope, He will allow me to prosecute my Method in treating of _this Case_, as I have done of some _others_; and _that_ the rather, considering it is generally well known, that sometimes _a Fool has put a Wise Man in the right way_. Wherefore I heartily wish that some Word may drop from my _Pen_, that may prove instrumental to wipe off the imputed _Blemishes_, and promote the real _Glory_ of WOMEN; And _this_ I could wish the more, because I am fully convinced that many are ignominiously branded with _BARRENNESS_, without any sufficient _Cause_: Insomuch, that I verily believe, that, upon an ingenuous _Tryal_, not one real or incurable _BARREN WOMB_, would be found in _Ten_ of _those_, which are this Day so reputed. But _à propos_—— As I have reduced all the _Causes_ of _STERILITY_ to the above said _four CLASSES_, so I shall reduce the _Diagnosticks_ to the same number; and thereby demonstrate how it may be easily discover’d, whether the FAULT lies in the _Attractive_, _Retentive_, _Alterative_, or in the _Nutritive Faculty_ of the WOMB; and how every particular _Cause_ in any of _these_ may be plainly distinguished, _&c._ In order to which, then— TOUCHING the FIRST, _inquirendum est primò, an ad Venerem apta sit Fæmina, & quidem an Veneris Appetitum habeat, & an Membrum virile rectè admittere possit. Horum enim si alterum desit, Causa, cur non concipiat, procul dubio in Attractrice hæret; ut etiam, si statim à Coitu, aut post breve Intervallum semen effluat._ I say, _These_ are the infallible MARKS of a læs’d _Attractive Power_, which also denote some _Fault_ of the WOMB, such as an _oblique Situation_, a _Compression_ of the EPIPLOON or CAWL, or some _obdurated Substance_, impeding the _SEED_ to reach the Cavity of the WOMB: The _Particular_ of which is easily to be discover’d; the _Situation_ by the ingenious TOUCH; the _Compression_ of the OMENTUM or EPIPLOON happens only to _Fat Women_; the _Substance_ or _Tumour_ (of whatsoever kind) if not found in the _Passage_, lodges in the WOMB it self.