Special hygienic and medical information for parents . rine cavity ; that the menstrual flow is a hem-orrhage, instead of secretion. CAUSE OF MENSES. Thomas says: Until the year 1821, whenPower first broached the subject, the connectionbetween ovulation and menstruation was unsus-pected. Every month one or more ova escapefrom the ovary, and the irritation produced inthe escape is transmitted to the uterus, themucous membrane of which becomes so en-gorged with blood that; a rupture of the blood-vessels occurs, and hemorrhage is the reason that the flow is monthly is becausethe ova es
Special hygienic and medical information for parents . rine cavity ; that the menstrual flow is a hem-orrhage, instead of secretion. CAUSE OF MENSES. Thomas says: Until the year 1821, whenPower first broached the subject, the connectionbetween ovulation and menstruation was unsus-pected. Every month one or more ova escapefrom the ovary, and the irritation produced inthe escape is transmitted to the uterus, themucous membrane of which becomes so en-gorged with blood that; a rupture of the blood-vessels occurs, and hemorrhage is the reason that the flow is monthly is becausethe ova escape monthly, and it takes about amonth for the successive eggs that make theirescape to become matured. Menstruation isanalogous to the period of heat in the loweranimals, and in the monkey tribe there is abloody discharge, with about the same intervalsas in the human female. Ovulation is not necessarily attended with themenstrual show, and if it is, the time of eachmay not be the same; one may anticipate theother. For this reason mothers many times. PUBERTT AND ITS PHENOMENA. 79 conceive during nursing; although there is noshow, there is ovulation. TURN OF LIFE. Turn of life generally occurs about ovaries that have been active since pubertynow relapse into the lethargythey manifested at first. Thesymptoms vary in differentwomen. The change is some-times very gradual; the dis-charge becomes less and lesseach month, until its final cessa-tion ; but oftentimes there is great irregularityboth in the time and the quantity of the hemorrhage sometimes occurs at thevery last menstrual effort. As a rule, there is agreater anxiety manifested by women at this so-called critical period than science and statisticswould warrant. Dewees says: The vulgarerror that women at this period of life arealways in danger is replete with mischief to thesuffering sex. If menstruation were a purifyingprocess, by which certain poisonous elementsare monthly eliminated from th
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