Identifier: bookofnaturecont00asht (find matches)
Title: The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married : on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Ashton, James History of Medicine Collections (Duke University) NcD
Subjects: Contraception Sex Manuals
Publisher: New York : Wallis & Ashton
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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during which the Ovum remainsin the Womb, is fourteen days. In some females it remainsas long as sixteen or seventeen days. Cases of supposedbarrenness are frequently those where the ova are expelledfrom the womb very soon after lodging there. It is thennecessary for the husband, if he desires children, to cohabitwith his wife immediately after the menstrual flow ceases.On the contrary, those who would avoid having offspring,(unless they use the means pointed out in another part ofthis book,) should refrain from sexual indulgence until theOvum has been expelled, which is generally the third weekafter the menstrual flow has ceased By a curious provision of Nature, the blood and vitalenergy required to ripen and expel the monthly Ovum ina female, is turned in another channel during pregnancy,and tends to secrete the milk and the fluids on which thegrowing foetus subsists. Thus the ova lie dormant duringthat period, and they seldom begin to ripen again until thenew-born infant is weaned
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Explanation of the Engraving. 1. The Clitoris. 2. The Outer and the Inner Lips of thePrivate Parts. 3. Meatus Urinarhis, and Mouth of theBladder. 4. The Vagina, or Passage towards theWomb. 5. Mouth of the Womb., 6. Thick Walls of the Womb.I 7. The Rectum. I 8. The Bladder. I 9. Pubic Bone. 10. Right Ovary and Fallopian Tube. FEMALE ORGANS CUT IX HALF SECTION OF INTERNALS. Explanation of the Engraving 1. The Clitoris. 2. Right Outer Lip 3. Right Inner Lip. 4. Entrance to the Vagina, or Pasnagetowards the Womb. 5. Urinary Passage, or Mouth of Bladder. - 6. Intestine of the Rectum. 7. Covering, or Wall of the Vagina. 8. The Bladder. 9. Covering of the Womb 10. The Ovaries, showing their connectionwith the Womb by the Fallopian Tubes. LI. The Abdoiueu

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