The psychology of marriage / by Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1917]
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    metabolism itself is under the influence of the internal secretions.” Virchow has said somewhat crudely that all we admire and revere as womanly is dependent on the ovary.” Dr. F. W. Mott alludes to the effect of the secre¬ tions of the sex organs. The internal secreting glands, the thyroid, thymus, and pituitary, all serve as hormones, or excitants, and arousers to specific functions, and arc more or less intimately related to the reproductive system. Noel Paton and Hen¬ derson trace a relationship between the thymus and the testicles ; and it has been found that removal of this gland in animals arrests growth of the seminal organs. Both ovarian and thyroid extracts, used medically, have been employed with success in the case of women suffering from the troubles of the change of life. Any excessive taxing of the secreting glands of the reproductive organisation is injurious to both mind and body. The question of excess and moderation must be considered later. There is no doubt that immoderation and disuse have their results sometimes upon the whole body, or sometimes locally at least. Therefore, it is important that the inter-relation of the glands of the body should be understood. The misuse of one gland may cause deficiency or disorder in another, and affect the psychic being and the physical constitution. The severe discipline of continence in youth, and during the vigour of early manhood, must not be underrated, more especially in the case of the male brought up in conventional traditions and surroundings. Professor Bigelow says truly : “ Forgetful men and uninformed women are prone to regard the lack of control in many young men as simply due to ‘ original sin,’ ‘ innate viciousness,’ ' bad com¬ panions,’ or irresistible temptations, and they overlook the great fact that maintaining sexual control in his prc-marital years is for the average healthy young man a problem compared with which all others, including the alcoholic temptation, are of very little significance. ... I question whether any young man has ever been helped through his adolescent crises by such oft-repeated assertions as that ‘ there is no more reason that a young man should go astray than that his sister should,’ or, in other words, that ‘ con¬ tinence is as easy for a young man as for a girl of similar age.” (” Sex Education.”)* * All parents and teachers should read Sex Education,” by Maurice A. Bigelow, Professor of Biology, Columbia University
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