Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage : an infallible guide-book for married and single persons, in matters of the utmost importance to the human race . eady to oedetached from the ovaria, and consequentlyripe for fecundation. But even admittingthis, I maintain that more than one willnot be removed, unless a more than aver-age quantity of the fluid be admitted by theuterus, as must be evident to any personwho has duly studied the mysteries of repro-duction, and made himself acquainted withthe position and economy of the ovaria. Thus, as we have seen, the uteru


Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage : an infallible guide-book for married and single persons, in matters of the utmost importance to the human race . eady to oedetached from the ovaria, and consequentlyripe for fecundation. But even admittingthis, I maintain that more than one willnot be removed, unless a more than aver-age quantity of the fluid be admitted by theuterus, as must be evident to any personwho has duly studied the mysteries of repro-duction, and made himself acquainted withthe position and economy of the ovaria. Thus, as we have seen, the uterus i3 amost important organ. Indeed, it may besaid to govern the woman, for it has a placein all her thoughts, but especially in thosewhich are occupied with love, jealousy,vanity and beauty; hence it may be saidthat the reproduction of the species is, inher, the most important object in hence, in many of the Eastern nationsthey assign her only a mortal existence, ar-guing that she would have no sympathieswith, and be of no use in a world, whereshe could no/ fulfil precisely the same endof being that she does in this. Far differ-ent, however, is my opinion os the subject,. bzcklards physiology 113 ior womans love is more pure and exaltedthan that of man—and what than pure andexalted love can be more etherial, or agreater evidence of the immortaliir/ of thesoul? CHAPTER X Opinions, suggestions, and informationon matters connected with the generalsubjects of this work. Parturition.—When the child is per-fectly formed, and fit for its reception inthe world, manifestations, which arethought by many to be voluntary with it-self, are given of its desire to leave thewomb. Some say, however, that labor isproduced by the reaction of the fibres of theuterus, thus causing a great distension,which makes it compulsory on the foetus toevolve itself; and others, again, form opi-nions quite at variance with either of theabove; so that nothing is actually knownof the cause or causes


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