Chapter 5

PREPARING FOR MOTHERHOOD

Menstruation--Irregular menstruation--Changes in the quantity of the flow--How the womb is held in place--Symptoms of menstruation--Menstruation should not be accompanied with pain--Don't give your daughters patent medicines, or "Female Regulators"--Take your daughter to the doctor--Leucorrhea in girls--Bathing when menstruating--Constipation and displaced wombs--Dress and menstruation--Absence of menstruation, or amenorrhea--Treatment of amenorrhea--Painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea--Causes of dysmenorrhea--Treatment of dysmenorrhea--Sterility in the female--Conditions which affect the fertility of women--Climate, station in life, season of the year, age, the tendency to miscarry--Causes of sterility in the female--Displacement of womb--Diseases of womb, ovaries, or tubes--Malformations--Lacerations--Tumors--Leucorrhea--Physical debility--Obesity--Special poisons--"Knack of miscarrying"--Miscarriage--Cause of miscarriage--The course and symptoms of miscarriage--What to do when a miscarriage is threatened--Treatment of threatened miscarriage--Treatment of inevitable miscarriage--After treatment of miscarriage--The tendency to miscarriage ... PAGE 187

THE BABY