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Title: Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cunningham, Henry S., M.D. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., G. F. Borst & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ntion, and let not those caressesyou gave him when you both were lovers be discon-tinued ; and especially see that you do not break your-selves down, physically and sexually, by labor; for ifyou do, just as you lose health, sexual power and beauty,just in the same ratio you may lose the warmth, ardorand love of your husbands. Mothers, you should advise your daughters relativeto what their conduct should be at the approach of themenstrual flow. Many children are so ignorant of na-tures laws as to become terribly frightened, fearingdeath from homorrhage, and frequently bathe in coldwater, producing suppression, often resulting in con-sumption or death. You here see a cut of the vagina, showing the rugaor folds lapped upon themselves like a fan. Theseruga need thorough cleansing sufficiently often to keep LIFE AND HYGIENE. 239 the parts free from all secretions, thereby avoiding atendency to leucorrhcea—whites—by keeping the partsin a tonic and healthy state, and ward off the relaxed
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The Vagina Laid Open. (After Ramsbotham.) Showing the rugse—wrinkles, K ; and the womb with its appendages, II;ovaries, G G ; Fallopian tubes, E E; broad ligaments or folds of the periton-eum, F F ; round ligaments, A ; the fundus of the uterus, B; the body, C ;the neck; and D, the os—mouth; the dark line near A and B shows the peri-toneum cut away on the left side. condition that is common to many females, which fa-vors falling of the womb. All females who are mar- 240 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF ried should endeavor to avoid the relaxed condition ofthe vagina, for four reasons: 1. In order to properly fulfill the position of wife. 2. To avoid falling of the womb. 3. To avoid cystocele—prolapsus of the bladder. 4. To prevent leucorrhoea—whites. The vagina is a hollow muscular and membranouscanal, and when in a state of tonicity assists in hold-ing the womb in position; but when in a greatly re-laxed state fails not only to support the womb, but inreality aids in dragging it dow

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