Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hrinks away and recoils from contactwith the male organ. In the latter case, the wife may or may notenjoy the act of coition; but if she does, the womb at the climaxinvoluntarily shrinks from the violent contusion which it is receiving. When excessive excitability exists in the wife, the ova are some-times actually ruptured by the violent contractions of the fallopiantubes, or paralyzed by the excess of nervous force or electricity pres-ent. The womb mavalso. under snch excitability, be set into violentcontortions and contractions sufficient not only to expel the ova out- 508 HINTS TO THE CHILDLESS. right, but to prevent the spermatozoa of the male from entering.In some cases of this kind there is no doubt but the ova are abso-lutely ejected from the womb with as much force as the spermaticfluids are ejected from the urethra, whereas the ova ought to beretained in the cavity of the uterus. However forcibly the ovamay be taken from the ovarian glands and carried down through Figr. 183.
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TEMPERAMENTAL INADAPTATION. A- and B are supposed to represent one married pair, and C and D another marriedcouple. The first two have light hair and eyes, and the second have black hair andeyes. the fallopian. tubes, they should not pass beyond the cavity of thewomb, for conception never takes place in the vagina. In somecases where the procreative organs are excessively sluggish in theiraction, pregnancy has taken place in one of the fallopian tubes, muchto the distress of the patient; but no one who is at all informed inregard to the organs of the female, need be assured that an ovumprecipitated into the vagina could not become impregnated. Exces- TEMPERAMENTAL INADAPTATION. 509 swe amative excitability is, therefore, more apt to cause barrennessthan is sexual apathy. Temperamental In adaptation.In my classification of the causes of barrenness, temperamentalinadaptation came last. If I were treating upon ill-success in raising Fig. 134.

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