Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics / by J. Matthews Duncan.

  • James Matthews Duncan
Date:
1871
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    may lead to. If it truly exist, it can lead only to true and good results. It is not considered probable by Dr. Montgomery tbat any interval, or an interval of any importance, does exist. The highest authorities, how- ever, on such a point, are unquestionably very strongly in favour of the belief in its existence, and its being of considerable extent, say several days. But in truth this question of a possible interval between insemina- tion and conception has nought to do with the cal- culation of the date of confinement. Its truth or untruth does not affect such calculations, and no author but Dr. Montgomery has, so far as I know, discussed the two points as connected with one another in any way tending to modify practical precepts.