Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham.

  • Alice Bunker Stockham
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII HYGIENE OF PREGNANCY What more charming sight than a rosy, robust young woman! Full of vigour, life, strength, power;-her step elastic, bounding, her face radiant, her presence magnetic ! To such there are no fears, no forebodings in maternity ! She needs not the counsels of physician or books. Her own life fulfils the law. It is not for her I write, but for those who, constantly violating physical laws, never know the blessedness of health. A woman possessed of a good constitution, having had proper physical training, is fully prepared to assume the responsibilities of marriage and mater- nity. As Nature’s own child, she needs to make but little change in her habits during the period of gestation. Realizing her obligations to offspring and pos- terity, long before assuming the marriage relation she has practised all known laws of health. Dr. Holbrook says : “ Those ailments to which pregnant women are liable, are, most of them, incon- veniences rather than diseases, although they may be aggravated to a degree of real danger. Arising, as they do, from the temporary physical condition of the organism, what they require is, not such medical treatment as may be needed for a true disease, but rather a general hygienic regimen. For a similar reason, while on the one hand it may not be possible
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