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Book 2: Semen and menstrual blood (De semine et menstruo)
- What is semen, genitura and salivary moisture? (Quid semen quidue genitura et humiditas saliualis)
- Semen’s nature and good qualities (De seminis natura atque praestantia)
- That women have semen and what it confers to the constitution of the foetus (Semen mulierem habere et quid in fetus constitutione opis id conferat)
- That semen affects the foetus, not only as a craftsman, but also as matter, and why the parts which produce semen are not regenerated (Semen non solum, ut opificem, sed etiam ut materiam foetum attingere, et cur partes seminariae non regenerentur)
- That semen affects the foetus, not only as a craftsman, but also as matter, but also in the powers, and from the moment it assumes its substantial form (Semen non mole, sed etiam uiribus a toto emanare, ac ubi substantiale accipiat formam)
- The function of the ovaries and what they confer on semen generation (De testium usu, quidque ipsi ad seminis generationem conferant)
- To what extent is semen considered to be animated (Semen qua ratione dicatur animatum)
- The fashioning faculty (De facultate formatrice)
- Menstrual blood (De menstruo sanguine)
- That menstrual blood is only at fault in quantity and that the child is nourished with it in the uterus (Menstruum sanguinem sola copia peccare, eodemque infantem in utero nutriri)
- By which channels is the menstrual blood expelled (Per quos ductus menstruus sanguis expurgetur)
- Time, quantity, duration and substance of menstruation (De tempore, quantitate, duratione, atque substantia menstruorum)
- That menstrual blood is not, by its very nature, hotter than man’s blood, as some have thought, and why the woman is able to conceive without menstruation or before its manifestation (Menstruum sanguinem natura sua calidiorem non esse virili, quod quidam opinati sunt: et qua ratione foemina absque uel ante mensium presentiam possit concipere)