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Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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due to thefact that women do not thoroughly appreciate the necessity ofrecovering completely from a miscarriage before taking uptheir daily work. Too often do they regard a miscarriage asa matter of little moment and insist on being up and about ina few days after this accident. It is often with the greatestdifficulty that a physician can persuade his patient to remainin bed for even ten days or two weeks. 373 MISCARRIAGE AND ITS PREVENTION The after treatment of a miscarriage is as important asthat of a delivery at full term. The author does not wish tounnecessarily alarm a woman who may have met with a mis-carriage by enumerating the many sources of danger connectedwith neglect of this condition. He therefore will merely statethat if a woman desires to undergo a complete recovery afterhaving a miscarriage, she must obey implicitly all the instruc-tions of her physician. If she follows his advice faithfully shewill probably never in the future experience any ill effects ofher mishap.
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Copyright. 1904, by Burr Mcintosh. YOUNG WOMANHOODS CHARMS. Regularity of feature, sweetness of expression, shapely armsand hands, symmetry of form with a wealth of hair give a win-someness to womanhood which should be cultivated and preserved. CHAPTER XXXVI. STERILITY: ITS CAUSES, PREVENTIONAND CURE. The woman not always to blame. Causes of Sterility in Women: Abnormali-ties, displacements, lacerations, inflammation; General conditions, such asobesity, anemia, etc.; Alcoholism; Absence of affinity; Lack of modera-tion. Prevention of Sterility. The Cure of Sterility. Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a childto love.—Southey. Y sterility is meant the inability to produce offspring.It is believed that about one out of every eight or tenmarriages is barren. The fault, however, does notalways lie with the woman; in every six childless mar-riages about one is due to sterility in the husband. Conse-quently in every case of barrenness, before the wife is sub-jec

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