Sex -- Cause and determination
This book, written by a woman for women, is the result of twenty-five years’ continuous study of the causes of Sex-determination and of the most feasible method of controlling it. It represents also the work of a life-time devoted to investigation into every symptom or indicat...
This book, written by a woman for women, is the result of twenty-five years’ continuous study of the causes of Sex-determination and of the most feasible method of controlling i...
2. Part 2This does not mean that there is no such thing as paternal heredity, in other words, that physical or moral characteristics do not descend from father to son throughout the gene...
3. Part 3Therefore it is all-important that boys should be breast-fed, if only for the first month of their existence. For the after-health of the mother, wishful of further _male_ issue...
4. Part 43. Since so many women are inclined to produce one child only, and since miscarriages are more common among male children, there is a large predominance of girls as first or onl...
5. Part 5On the other hand in tubercular hip-disease, the left leg is affected in 80 per cent. of cases. Congenital dislocation of the hip is seven times more common in female children t...
6. Part 6Those readers who have followed the argument so far will have gathered from the last chapter the nature of my claim that every normal and healthy woman is able to conceive a gir...
7. Part 7As time goes on experience teaches that the condition of the blood when a girl is carried has different characteristics from those in a male pregnancy. The quantity of fat and a...
8. Part 8_Variety B._ Two of the same sex: One ovary: two Graafian follicles: two ova: either two girls or two boys. In this variety there may or may not be a placenta to each, but gener...
9. Part 9“I find it hard to express how awfully grateful I am to you for all you have done.... It really is too extraordinary what you have done for my health, besides the infant—your po...