barrenness

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Barrenness may frequently be remedied by the exercise of great care upon the part of both the husband and the wife in the matter of diet and proper physical exercise.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

Its Barrenness and Artificiality.—Return to Nature and sentiment.

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

Of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its causes, signs and cures; together with the chief occasions of Barrenness in Women, and the Means to remove the Cause, and render them fruitful.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

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.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Johnson, Samuel

Barrenness, dead branches, and premature general decay, are the natural and righteous consequences of such crying abuse.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace