Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver.

  • Oliver, James.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Notes on diseases of women / by James Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vlll. III.—Notes on Sterility from a Physiological Standpoint ••• ••• 37 53 Interdependence exhibited throughout organic world. No hard-and-fast line to be drawn between fertility and sterility. Reproductive functions obscure. iLt- fect of a first fruitful coitus on succeeding progeny. Gamo-enesis. Male mammals nourished the young. Female plays all-important part in procreation Ster- ilityToo frequently and unjustly attributed to female^ Too great slxual activity a cause of sterility Germ and sperm cell meet and coalesce, probably at fimbr - ated ex remity of fallopian tube. Absence of shell to Protect egg of bird a tendency to sterility. Habits and surroundings in man and animals affect reproduc- dve funcSn Sexual incompatibility due to similarity rather than dissimilarity of reproductive elemen . Anomalous reciprocal behaviour in grafting plants ^pToductive energy exhausted in g-ng birth to one rhild High nutrition cause of barrenness, sterility a etiological co-association of lactation. Pervei- Ln in case of milk cow. Early marriage productive of evil! Kaffir women most fertile. Detriment of higher education in women. IV—Prolapsus Uteri ... ••• 54—62 ception. Treatment. V —Fibroid Tumours of the Uterus 63-81 ' structure varieties. ^fZ'uS^TomyTC- Changes such may undergo M nu e Causes of impairment of niit ritionm Fibroids new growths in uterus usually encapsuiea.