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 . a prematurelabor. Dancing, riding, and other violentexercises, chiefly indulged in for pleasure,during the honey moon, often producemiscarriages, by unduly agitating the em-bryo. Sometimes the fault lies in somedeficiency on the part of the ovum, inwhich event it will be expelled by theuterus, as an useless and foreign body. Itoccasionally takes weeks, however, andeven months to effect this expulsion,though th
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 . a prematurelabor. Dancing, riding, and other violentexercises, chiefly indulged in for pleasure,during the honey moon, often producemiscarriages, by unduly agitating the em-bryo. Sometimes the fault lies in somedeficiency on the part of the ovum, inwhich event it will be expelled by theuterus, as an useless and foreign body. Itoccasionally takes weeks, however, andeven months to effect this expulsion,though the fetus is dead from the time ofseparation. Abortion may be caused bythe inability of the uterus to distend itselfbeyond a certain size; and in subjects thusaffected the separation will generally, if notalways take place about the same period ofpregnancy. Tight lacing, a fright, a shock,% blow on the abdomen, an irritable dis-position, severe labor, violent excitementof the passions—pleasurable or otherwise—and a variety of other causes, as even ex-cessive indolence, and lying in soft beds,&.c. may likewise occasion a separation andexpulsion of the fetus before its becklards phtsiologt. 121The symptoms, before it takes place, area hoemorrhage from the vagina, with tran-sitory pains in the back. The patientshould then be placed in a recumbent po-sition, and examined; and if mental orbodily exertion has been the cause, sheshould be blooded in the arm, and a gentlelaxitive, or injection administered. Then,unless in cases where plethora prevails, afull dose of opium—say of thirty or fortydrops—should be given; but when thedisease originates in plethora, free purga-tives, such, however, as will reduce with-out weakness, are the best remedies. Bythis treatment, the separation of the ovum,already commenced, is often put a stop toThe patient must then be caretul of herdiet for many weeks, partaking of nonebut such as is light and sparing; and irexercise is allowed it sho
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