Sexual physiology : a scientific and popular exposition of the fundamental problems in sociology / by R.T. Trall.

  • Trall, R. T. (Russell Thacher), 1812-1877.
Date:
[1919?]
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Credit: Sexual physiology : a scientific and popular exposition of the fundamental problems in sociology / by R.T. Trall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEXUAL FHY8I0LQQT. 3>4 ai world are begotten recklessly of all physiological conditions, with no considerations of duty or propriety, and with little or no thought for the welfare of the future generations, a very little reflection will enable any one to understand. This is not so with regard to domestic animals. Very few agricul¬ turists are so regardless of the laws of health as to allow their cattle to propagate except under favorable circumstances for their own health, and the vigor and beauty of the progeny. They wonld never allow the sexes to come together for repro¬ duction after a hard day’s toil; while either was in a state of fatigue or excitement, or in any condition of bodily exhaus¬ tion or disorder; nor while in any state of mental anxiety, despondency, anger or grief. »Nothing is clearer than the fact that organization is trans¬ missible, and nothing is better established, if, indeed, it is not self-evident, that the qualities—the bodily and mental states -—of both parents at the moment of conception, affect the future being for life, while it is equally demonstrable that the wholesome or unwholesome -conditions and surroundings of the mother, her happy or unhappy circumstances, through the periods of gestation and lactation, continually affect and modify the organization of the offspring for good or for evil. Nay, more, the very germ of life—the ovum itself—is affected while in process of development in its ovarian bed, by what¬ ever influences or disturbs her functions of body or of mind. The renovation of the race, therefore, must begin with the proper training of those who are to develop the germs—in girlhood, yes, in infancy. Health Reformers are beginning to attach due importance to air, food, water, exercise, light, etc., as means for the preser-