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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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spair. Some physiologists claim thatthe spermatozoa of the male will retaintheir vigor and impregnating power ifput in warm water and injected with asyringe; but no successful experiment ,is adduced to sustain the hypothesis.Still, there are means by which theartificial injection of healthy malespermatic fluids may be made so as toinduce impregnation. In the majority of cases, however, an incom-petent husband may be fully restored to all his powers by medicinesor electricity, or both. ISTo married pair should despair of havingchildren, until skillful medication has been tried; and proper elec-trical applications will often cure when the former fails. Too muchcare to protect the embryo cannot be taken by a lady who, afteryears of fruitless marriage, arising from disease, becomes enceinte.Such a person is much more liable to miscarry, and miscarriages areapt to render a predisposition to barrenness more confirmed. I havehad ladies under my care, who, after having by patient perseverance
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THE MIOE08COPB. 516 HINTS TO THE CHILDLESS. in my treatment, attained the condition so long sought for, failed toreach the full realization of their hopes by falls, frights, excessivefatigues, or some cause of like nature, and I have found it quite im-possible, in some cases, to restore the tone of the productive organsso that pregnancy would again take place. When excessive amativeness is the cause of unfruitfulness, somerules requiring self-denial and self-control must be observed, or off-spring cannot be obtained. If the fault exists in the husband, hemust be less excessive in sexual indulgence so as to allow time forthe spermatozoa to attain vital development. If he be violent incoition, then he should use the pads recommended for A and B, sothat he may not quite touch the mouth of the womb. In some casesof this kind the ejaculatory forces are so great that the fluids willreach the uterus if the glans-penis does not come within two orthree inches of it. If the wife be too impulsiv

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