The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
Date:
[1920]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    144/166 page 140
    in the case of vigorous women the sex impulse may last even longer than in men of equal vigour. Bloom, an American physician, has found erotic desire per¬ sisting to a very advanced age in women. In the course of an inquiry among four hundred women, he discovered a woman twenty years beyond the change of life who had married again, and was seventy years of age. She affirmed that inclina¬ tion and satisfaction were the same, if not greater, than before the menopause. Other physicians of high repute have testified to the persistence of desire in elderly women as a not uncommon phenomenon. It is clearly impossible to fix the period when the emotion of love and its attendant longing ceases in woman. Blair Bell brings forward a large amount of evidence showing that the cessation of ovarian and thyroid secretion banishes finally all sexual desire. It has not been proved, however, that these secretions cease suddenly at the menopause. More¬ over, we know that the sexual impulse can exist after the removal of internal reproductive organs. While I am con¬ vinced that the internal ductless glands and their hormone fluids play a very great part in the arousing of amorous
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3