Identifier: feminologyguidef00dres (find matches)
Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s were living organisms.The cause of the motion is supposed to be the same as thewave-like motion in the ciliated cells of the uterus andFallopian tubes. Hundreds of spermatozoa are containedin a drop of semen. When deposited in the vicinity of anovum, they are attracted toward it, surround it, and theone nearest the germinal spot strikes it with open mouth;and a new life is begun. The mystery is inexplicable.All know that it is, yet why is the union of these germs,so small as to be invisible to the eye, the beginning of thatinfinitely prized state, called life! Spermatozoa. From the human subject magnifiedeight hundred diameters.—(Luschka.) PREGNANCY. 13 Signs of Pregnancy.— Nearly all matrons, at the begin-ning of pregnancy, experience changes from their previouscondition of health. Some at once feel more buoyant andcheerful, and take on new health and vigor. This is as itshould be. But many more women suffer throughout theentire period. The condition of motherhood is in harmony
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Front View of the Unimpregnated Uterus and its Appendages,and Section of the Vagina. a, cavity of uterus; b, body of uterus; d d, fimbriated extremity of Fallopian tubes;e, Fallopian tube; f, round ligaments; h, broad ligaments; k, walls of vagina; 1, fundusof uterus; g, vagina; m, fimbriated portion of tube grasping an ovum; o, ovum surroundedby spermatozoa in lower third of Fallopian tube during its passage toward the uterus. It is inthis part of the tube where impregnation usually takes places. with nature, and if the best efforts are put forth to securehealth for the mother and babe, there can be no reason whyevery normal woman should not be stronger and more beau-tiful after passing through pregnancy and parturition thanbefore. 132 FEMINOLOGY. The first indication usually to be observed that a womanis enceinte, is the stoppage of the menses. At suchtime, nature changes her plan, the menstrual flow beingused as building material to develop the embryo. Somephysiologists aver that w

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