IMPREGNATION, the getting a female with child. See CONCEPTION.
The term impregnation is also used, in pharmacy, for communicating the virtues of one medicine to another, whether by mixture, coction, digestion, &c.
(A) “ It is to be considered, that the constitution is commonly affected by the spasms only, and in proportion to their violence, independent of the secretion and evacuation of the semen. But in some cases even the erection going off without the spasms on the emission, shall produce the same debility as if they had taken place.”