Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    MATERNITY. SECTION I P11VS .~!AL RELATIONS OF OFFSPRING TO THE MOTHER. 404. EVERY THING MUST HAVE ITS MOTHER. Maternity is the door through which all that lives en- ters upon its terrestrial existence. As earth is the com* mon mother of all those endless forms of life within and upon her, so every vegetable, every animai, every human being, has each its own specific mother. Thus the fruit tree is the mother of those seed-bearing fruits which re- produce their kind, while the pulp, or edible portion, is to the seed, what its mother's milk is to the infant ani- mal—a deposite of nutrition, to feed and moisten it till it can take root, so as to sustain independent life. And thus of all berries, nuts, and the seeds of every tree and shrub that grows ; while the straw of grains, grasses, weeds, and herbs, are their veritable mothers, and the edible portion of grains and seeds is to the chit, or germ, what the maternal breast is to animal and man. Potatoes, onions, bulbous roots, etc., all have their mothers, and, in turn, become mothers ; and thus of all that grows upon the face of the whole earth. This maternal law likewise governs every species, every individual of the animal kingdom. The femala