Marriage and parentage, education, and kindred subjects / O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
1889
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Credit: Marriage and parentage, education, and kindred subjects / O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PART I. CHAPTER I. Introduction CHAPTER II. Distinction op Sex. In what it consists—Its extent— Its object CHAPTER III. The Reproductive System. Office of the Male— Office of the Female—Spermatic Secretion—Spermatozoa—Ovaries— Periodical function of the Female : its relation to her health and happiness CHAPTER IY. Development op the Fetus. Nutrition before Birth— Fetal Circulation—Connection between Nutrition and Reproduction CHAPTER Y. The Human Soul. Its origin, nature, and relations to the body—Science of Society—Communion of Soul with Soul—Mani- festations of the Soul dependent on the conditions of the Nervous System CHAPTER YI. Transmission op Disease. Hereditary conditions— Acquired conditions—Transient conditions—Conditions of the Mother during Gestation and Lactation—Illustrative facts—Solitary and Social abuses of the Sexual Nature—Facts to illustrate the effects on the Child, of passion in the Mother during Lactation CHAPTER VII. Existence op Children. To whose agency is it to be attributed 1—Who is responsible for it 1 A Fatal Popular Error—Is it right for parents to have more children than they can properly care for !—Who to be shunned in Marriage—Influence of the period pre- \ ious to birth on after-life—How those are to be regarded who devise means to prevent Conception or procure Abortion—A Love Origin PAKT II. LETTER I. Fidelity to our Nature LETTER II. What is Marriage? LETTER III. Perpetuity op Marriage LETTER IV. Variety in Love or Polygamy 7 11 13 18 23 28 37 4G 47 51 53