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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    for a long time afterwards some influence in the progeny. In order to have as far as possible a clear conception of the multifarious influences at work tending to induce sterility, we must approach the whole subject and attempt to elucidate revealed facts with a mind free from all bias. In this way alone can we serve the end of science by encouraging truth. Lack of observation is the bane of all progress in medicine. In man and the majority of animals, per- petuation of the species is maintained by a process of gamogenesis by a coalition, and further segmentation of the germinal elements, produced by two sexually distinct individuals. This participation in the act of generation by two parents necessarily hinders us in our in- vestigations regarding those causes which are constantly at work, and liable to the greatest variation, act and re-act directly or indirectly on the reproductive organs. In the case of the male parent, all interest actually ceases with the emission of the sperm element. That there was a time in the evolution of life when the progenitors of the mammalian class of animals, male and female alike, yielded milk and aided in sustaining the young by this secretion, there appears to be but little doubt. All male mam-
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