Category: Health & Medicine

The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene

Ovulation; Etiology of Menstruation; Uterine Nerve-supply; the Function of the Uterus; Stages of the Menstrual Cycle; Average Duration of the Menstrual Flow; Character of the Flow; Relation of Ovulation to Menstruation; the Menstrual Wave; Definition of Menstruation; Premonito...

Chapters

29. Chapter 29

Average Duration of the Menstrual Function; Duration of Menopause; the Menopause; General Phenomena of the Menopause; Prominent Symptoms of Menopause; Pathologic Conditions of t...

28. Chapter 28

The Infant's Toilet.-- So soon as the mother has been made comfortable, the toilet of the infant is attended to. This should be made near the register or stove; and the lap of t...

25. Chapter 25

Nature of Conception; Pregnancy Defined; Duration of Pregnancy; the Signs of Pregnancy; Quickening; the Determination of Sex at Will; the Influence of the Male Sexual Element on...

31. Chapter 31

Indigestion.-- The chief causes of indigestion are: eating rapidly, eating at irregular hours, eating indigestible foods, constipation, and lack of exercise. No one who values h...

26. Chapter 26

"To my conception one generation of educated mothers would do more for the regeneration of the race than all other human agencies combined; and it is an instruction of the head...

17. Chapter 17

Home Life.-- With beginning menstruation the equilibrium of the body is very easily disturbed, so that even in the case of the healthy girl some precautions should be taken and...

24. Chapter 24

Sterility.-- Conception is least apt to take place from the tenth day after one period until the third day before the next; but there is practically no time during a woman's sex...

19. Chapter 19

Ovulation; Etiology of Menstruation; Uterine Nerve-supply; the Function of the Uterus; Stages of the Menstrual Cycle; Average Duration of the Menstrual Flow; Character of tahe F...

27. Chapter 27

Management of the Lying-in.-- Immediately after the delivery the first essential for the patient is absolute quiet and rest; the room must be kept quiet and darkened, and ordina...

22. Chapter 22

The Wedding Journey; the Ethics of Married Life; Shall Husband and Wife Occupy the Same Bed? the Comsummation of Marriage; the Marital Relation; Times when Marital Relations Sho...

21. Chapter 21

Herbert Spencer's Definition of Love; What Constitutes a Suitable Husband; Best Age for Marriage; Shall Cousins Marry? Contraindications to Marriage; Do Reformed Profligates Mak...

15. Chapter 15

"What is man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? A beast; no more. Sure, He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, g...

30. Chapter 30

Hygiene of the Menopause.-- The changes which occur in all the organs of the body at the time of the menopause are retrograde, and therefore just the opposite of those which occ...

18. Chapter 18

The Vulva.-- The female generative organs consist of three groups-- the external, the intermediate, and the internal. The vulva, or external generative organs, comprises all tho...

20. Chapter 20

Menorrhagia and Metrorrhagia.-- By menorrhagia is meant an excessive or too profuse menstrual flow; by metrorrhagia, a flow of blood between the menstrual periods. Neither one c...

23. Chapter 23

Sexual Instinct in Women.-- After careful observation of the sexes in the married state, it is found that the sexual appetence is less in women than it is in men. Much of this d...

16. Chapter 16

Sexual Development.-- Sexual development goes on during all the years of childhood, but is not complete in the female sex until between the twenty-second and the twenty-fifth ye...

4. Chapter 4

Ovulation; Etiology of Menstruation; Uterine Nerve-supply; the Function of the Uterus; Stages of the Menstrual Cycle; Average Duration of the Menstrual Flow; Character of the Fl...

6. Chapter 6

Herbert Spencer's Definition of Love; What Constitutes a Suitable Husband; Best Age for Marriage; Shall Cousins Marry? Contraindications to Marriage; Do Reformed Profligates Mak...

13. Chapter 13

Average Duration of the Menstrual Function; Duration of Menopause; the Menopause; General Phenomena of the Menopause; Prominent Symptoms of Menopause; Pathologic Conditions of M...

10. Chapter 10

Nature of Conception; Pregnancy Defined; Duration of Pregnancy; the Signs of Pregnancy; Quickening; the Determination of Sex at Will; the Influence of the Male Sexual Element on...

7. Chapter 7

The Wedding Journey; the Ethics of Married Life; Shall Husband and Wife Occupy the Same Bed? the Consummation of Marriage; the Marital Relation; Times when Marital Relations Sho...

3. Chapter 3

12. Chapter 12

11. Chapter 11

2. Chapter 2

14. Chapter 14

1. Chapter 1

9. Chapter 9

8. Chapter 8

5. Chapter 5