Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . er of fcetal organization is some-what as follows : the heart and large vessels, the liver andappendages, the brain, stomach, and extremities. Thedetermination of sex and number has hitherto defied ex-ploration. In the early months of pregnancy the wombmaintains its natural position ; but as it enlarges, it alsoemerges from the pelvis into the abdomen. The momentof its slipping out
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . er of fcetal organization is some-what as follows : the heart and large vessels, the liver andappendages, the brain, stomach, and extremities. Thedetermination of sex and number has hitherto defied ex-ploration. In the early months of pregnancy the wombmaintains its natural position ; but as it enlarges, it alsoemerges from the pelvis into the abdomen. The momentof its slipping out of the pelvis is termed quickening, ofwhich most women are sensible—some fainting on the oc-casion, others being attacked with nausea, hysteria, andpalpitation of the heart. Quickening usually occurs be-tween the fourth and fifth month. The fetus is thencalled a child—the law ordaining that, if a woman inten-tionally procure, or such parties as may assist in so doing,abortion or miscarriage before quickening, it is misde-meanor, if after, murder. 13 140 A POPULAR TREATISE The following diagram is presented to show the situa-tion occupied by the womb containing the child just readyto enter the world :—. o—The —The vagin*e—The bladd* -d—The rectunk A full pregnant female, like a very corpulant man,walks very erect: hence the popular notion that ladies inthe one condition, and gentlemen in the other, do not thinkmeanly of themselves, but strut along well pleased witktheir own importance. It is an uncharitable idea; theattitude is unavoidable, the head and shoulders beingthrown back to counterbalance the protuberance in front—to preserve, in fact, the centre of gravity, to save them-selves from falling. Symptoms of Pregnancy.—Mysterious as is the processof impresnation, there are many forewarning which, be-ing generally found correct, are useful to be known. Great OK VENEREAL DISEASES. 147 as are the changes that take place in the female economydaring child-
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