The causation of sex : a new theory of sex based on clinical materials ; together with chapters on the sex of the unborn child, and on the determination of sex at will / by E. Rumley Dawson.

  • Dawson, E. Rumley (Ernest Rumley), -1918.
Date:
1909
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    CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION ........ I I. THE ANATOMY OF THK FEMALE GENERATIVE ORGANS . 5 II. PHYSIOLOGY — OVULATION — THE CORPUS LUTEUM — PUBERTY—MENSTRUATION—THE MENOPAUSE . 16 III. THE FORMATION OF OVA ...... 28 IV. THE FORMATION OF SPERMATOZOA . . . .32 V. FERTILISATION ........ 34 VI. THE THEORY AND ITS EXPLANATION, TOGETHER WITH SOME CONFIRMATORY VIEWS .... 45 VII. DOES THE MALE PARENT OR FATHER INFLUENCE SEX? 55 VIII. CASES OF UTERINE PREGNANCY, WHICH PROVE THE THEORY 61 IX. CASES OF EXTRA-UTERINE PRb:GNANCY, WHICH PROVE THE THEORY ... ... -65 X. CASES OF PREGNANCY AFTER OPERATIONS ON THE OVARIES, WHICH PROVE THE THEORY, AND SHOW THE EFFECT ON CHILDBEARING OF SUCH OPERA¬ TIONS 74 XI. CASES OF PREGNANCY IN ABNORMAL UTERI, WHICH PROVE THE THEORY . . . . . -79 XII. THE CORPUS LUTEUM AS A SIGN OF PREGNANCY . 82 ix b