The conjugal relationships : as regards personal health and heredity well-being, practically treated / by Augustus K. Gardner.
- Augustus Kinsley Gardner
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The conjugal relationships : as regards personal health and heredity well-being, practically treated / by Augustus K. Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![different times, before slie had attained her twenty-first year. Some of the children died, and neither of her or of them, have I had airy sub- sequent knowledge. Apparently she was in the full vigour of health, but yet it is quite possible that her life might have been shortened by such premature tax upon her vigour. We know that the popular idea is, that women are worn out by the toil and wear connected with the raising of large families, and we can willing] v concede something to this statement; but it is certainly far more observable that the efforts at the present day, made to avoid pro- pagation, are ten thousand-fold more disastrous to the health and constitution, to say nothing of the demoralisation of mind and heart, which can- not be estimated by red cheeks or physical vigour. A point incidentally connected with that now under consideration, and being of general interest, as well as of real importance, it may be well to allude to here. This is the relative danger and difficulty attendant upon maternity at early or late periods of life. Popular opinion, and, indeed, the heretofore generally expressed professional](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28088049_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
