The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . uch as neuralgic pains in the legs, alterations in the shapeof the pelvis, and curvature of the spine. Ordinary social pleasures entailinglate hours have a very bad effect on a girls nervous organization. Sexual Life.—Normal sexual intercourse, even when frequent, is not apt to HYGIENE OF THE SEXUAL FUNCTIONS. 37 injure a healthy woman. But irregularities indulged in will bring in their trainmany complaints. Marriage, if pelvic disease exists, is often attended with direresults, and causes much misery


The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . uch as neuralgic pains in the legs, alterations in the shapeof the pelvis, and curvature of the spine. Ordinary social pleasures entailinglate hours have a very bad effect on a girls nervous organization. Sexual Life.—Normal sexual intercourse, even when frequent, is not apt to HYGIENE OF THE SEXUAL FUNCTIONS. 37 injure a healthy woman. But irregularities indulged in will bring in their trainmany complaints. Marriage, if pelvic disease exists, is often attended with direresults, and causes much misery to both husband and wife. The growth of fibro-mata seems especially active in the uteri of unmarried women and in those whohave never borne children. It would seem that the energies of that organ, whichare normally applied to the formation of a child, being deprived of that object,• are free to take part in the production of a new growth. The Prevention of Reproduction.—The act of reproduction may be set atnaught in a twofold manner: (i) By conditions which prevent the union of the.


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