Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
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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iv«s up her fondest hope of becoming a mother. The reader should carefully examine the annexed illustrations inthe light of the foregoing explanations, and it will then be easilyunderstood how a great many wives may be childless simply becauseof the failure of the male fluids to reach the mouth of a sluggish 492 HINTS TO THE CHILDLESS. womb. In these illustrations of local inadaptations, I embrace dis-placements of the uterus. These are common; more common thanis generally supposed, for the reason that it is popularly believed thatdisplacements do not exist in healthy women. It is generallythought that only those have displacements who are affected moreor less with discomfort in the pelvic region. They are generallyassociated with such symptoms as leucorrhcea, dragging or bearing-down feelings in the region of the uterus, and the various othersymptoms described as occurring in these cases in the preceding chap-ter; but it should be understood that they are often produced in Fig. 127.
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X.QO A A H. A > ^r-TATIO» young girlhood so gradually, that nature meekly conforms to thechanged positon of the womb. When brought about by any pressureof the bowels downward, the womb usually takes the position repre-sented in the diagram marked I; or, when by contracting the cavitywhich it should occupy, the displacement represented by K. In farthe greater number of apparently healthy cases I have examined,however, the diagram designated by the letter I, best representsthe displacement. It seems almost impossible that such a positionshould not in all cases affect the proper action of the bladder; but LOCAL INADAPTATION. 493 it does not perceptibly in many, for I have discovered it in womenwho suffer no inconvenience whatever from an inability to re-tain the water, nor yet from any sensation of dragging, bearingdown, or weight in the region of the womb. Besides the early effectsof bad habits in dress, falls, severe jarring of the body, and diseases ingirlhood cause displacements

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