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Book 3: Coitus, conception and pregnancy (De coitu, conceptu et uteri gestatione)
- What is sexual intercourse and by which causes it is stimulated (Quid coitus et quibus de causis excitetur)
- The purpose of sexual intercourse and why only the pregnant woman admits the [contact with] man (Coitus finis et quod sola praegnans mulier uirum admittat)
- Some remarkable things about sexual intercourse (Notabilia nonnula circa coitum)
- To whom, at what time, at what age and in what temperament does sexual intercourse do good or bad (Quibus, quo tempore, aetate et temperamento coitus conueniat aut noceat)
- Advice that must be taken into consideration in the sexual relation itself so that it is productive and very little harmful (Admonitiones in ipso coitu obseruandae ut et prolificus sit et minime nociuus)
- If different species can copulate (Possintne diuersa genere coire)
- Conception (De conceptu)
- The resemblance in sex and if the woman is less perfect than the man (De similitudine in sexu et an foemina uiro sit imperfectior)
- The similarity of the species and that of the individual (De similitudine specifica et indiuiduali)
- The similarity with the ancestors and with the relatives (De similitudine ad maiores et consanguineos)
- The cause of dissimilarity with parents and why moles and monsters are generated (De causa dissimilitudinis ad parentes, et cur mola ac monstra generentur)
- Hermaphrodites (De hermaphroditis)
- How superfetation occurs and twins are conceived (qui superfetatio contingat ac concipiantur gemelli)
- The formation of the foetus and the gestation in the uterus (De fetus formatione et uteri gestatione)
- The female conception and at what time the foetus feels and moves (De femineo conceptu ac quo tempore fetus sentiat et moueatur)
- Which of the viscera is generated first: the heart or the liver (Vtrum uiscerum prius generetur cor an hepar)
- The capacities that the foetus has or does not have in the uterus (De operationibus quibus in utero infans caret quibusue utitur)
- At what point does the rational soul enter the body (Quo tempore rationalis anima corpori infundatur)
- Whether the human or rational mind is exempt from death (Humanam sive rationalem mentem mortis expertem esse)