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In The Cottage Physician, written at the end of the 19th century, a section entitled "Barrenness" lists possible causes, including "want of tone or strength in the system" and "nervous debility."
Dr. Jon LaPook: Infertility: Have You Checked Your Sperm? 2010
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I would add that the description of "Barrenness," in his verses to Pope, was borrowed from Secundus; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read, I could not find it.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Barrenness, what grievances it causeth; a cause of jealousy
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Barrenness in women, being also a species of inutility, is a reproach, but not in the same degree: of which the reason is very obvious, according to the present theory.
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Whence ariseth Barrenness in Women, and Impotency in Men?
Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted 2004
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Barrenness does occur in some vetiver areas, but hardly because of the plant.
2 Case Studies 1993
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Barrenness and sorrow, or disconsolation, are in this dry place.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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CAUSE: Wasting or Atrophy, chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the organs of generation, Whites, absence or excessive secretions of the organs of generation, contraction or displacement of the womb, horns being telescoped or twisted, cysts or growths of the ovaries, in-breeding or being a twin, are the predisposing causes of Barrenness.
The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek
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_ -- Barrenness in many cases is due to malformation of the generative organs, tumors or other diseased conditions.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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Having found the _Haunt_ of an _Eye of Pheasants_, known by the _Barrenness_ of the place, _Mutings_ and loose Feathers, then in the little Pads and
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