# Hippocrates, *Hippocrates. Volume IV*, trans. Jones, 1931 > [!cite] > Hippocrates. *Hippocrates. Volume IV: Heracleitus. On the Universe*. Translated by W. H. S. Jones. London: William Heinemann, 1931; reprinted in 1967. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/bwb_W8-AAA-035. --- ‘The development of the embryo … Males (inclining to fire) and females (inclining to water) generate offspring that are male or female according to the predominance of the male or female element. (1) Male from man and male from woman: brilliant men. (2) Male from man mastering female from woman: brave men. (3) Male from woman mastering female from man: hermaphrodites. (4) Female from both man and woman: lovely women. (5) Female from woman mastering male from man: bold but modest women. (6) Female from man mastering male from woman: brazen women.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume IV, trans. Jones, 1931|(Jones 1931, xli)]]^a91c01 ‘Purge pregnant women, should there be orgasm, from the fourth to the seventh month, but these last less freely ; the unborn child, in the first and last stages of pregnancy, should be treated very cautiously.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume IV, trans. Jones, 1931|(Hippocrates Aph. 4.1., trans. Jones 1931, 135)]] ^c877b4 ‘These three kinds of men are born, but the degree of manliness depends upon the blending of the parts of water, upon nourishment, education, and habits.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume IV, trans. Jones, 1931|(Hippocrates, trans. Jones 1931, 269)]] ^849188 ‘An orgasm is literally a state of excitement, and in this aphorism signifies that the humours are “struggling to get out”, as Adams says.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume IV, trans. Jones, 1931|(Translator’s note in Hippocrates, trans. Jones 1931, 108)]] ^a79f8f ‘Women should use a regimen of a rather dry character, for food that is dry is more adapted to the softness of their flesh, and less diluted drinks are better for the womb and for pregnancy.’ [[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume IV, trans. Jones, 1931|(Hippocrates, trans. Jones 1931, 108)]] ^e9933f