Painless childbirth, or, healthy mothers and healthy children ; a book for women containing practical rules how the pains and perils, the difficulties and dangers of childbirth may be effectually avoided ; also, a practical consideration of the diseases of women, and their common-sense treatment, prescriptions, Etc., Etc. / by John H. Dye.

  • Dye, John Henry, -1903.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Painless childbirth, or, healthy mothers and healthy children ; a book for women containing practical rules how the pains and perils, the difficulties and dangers of childbirth may be effectually avoided ; also, a practical consideration of the diseases of women, and their common-sense treatment, prescriptions, Etc., Etc. / by John H. Dye. 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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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Co-existent with Human Exigence—The Same Throughout all Ages- Love Fulfills both Divine and Human Laws—The Difference Be- tween Sexuality and Sensuality—It is a Man's Duty to Comprehend the Laws of his Being, for in Knowledge there is Safety—Ignorance will not Protect him from the Penalty of Broken Laws—Reason Should Govern his Acts—Should Govern his Passions Instead of Letting them Govern Him—Neither Sex is Complete in Itself—The Attraction of the Sexes the Basis of Marriage—Which Loves Most, Man or Woman ?—Sexual Passion—Xot Essential to Reproduction— Mental, Moral and Physical Influences of the Mother L'pon the Unborn—Transmission of Vital and Other Characteristics—The Highest and Holiest Duties of Earth Consigned to Woman—Discre- tion—Universality of Definite and Well-regulated Laws—Pain, the Result of Having Broken Some Law—Unconscious Transgression —Like Begets Like 13 CHAPTER II. Woman's Legitimate Object—The Highest and Holiest to which She Can Aspire—What Maternity Implies—Its Beginning and End— Early Development of Characteristic Traits—Maternity Encour- aged by the Ancients—All Women are Xot Fit to Become Mothers —How the Transmission of Disease may be Favored or Opposed- Matrimonial Selections—Woman, Instead of Legislatures, Should Control Her Functions—How Our Civil Laws Operate—Abuses of Reproduction—Opinions of Authors—The Confliction of Social and Natural Laws—Laws Against Preventing Conception—As Many Sterile Women Want Children as Fertile Ones Want to Prevent Them—A Mistake of the Newly-Married—The Proper Age for Marriage, and its Influence on Mother and Child—Symptoms-of Conception—Mothers' Marks—How Produced, How Prevented— Longings—Meddlesome Busybodies—The Plan of the Ancient Greeks—Who Should Nourish the Child 24