Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he displacement represented by K. In farthe greater number of apparently healthy cases I have examined,however, the diagram designated by the letter I, best representsthe displacement. It seems almost impossible that such a positionshould not in all cases affect the proper action of the bladder; but LOCAL INADAPTATION. 493 it does not perceptibly in many, for I have discovered it in womenwho suffer no inconvenience whatever from an inability to re-tain the water, nor yet from any sensation of dragging, bearingdown, or weight in the region of the womb. Besides the early effectsof bad habits in dress, falls, severe jarring of the body, and diseases ingirlhood cause displacements of various kinds, which, not remedied,m adult age continue without the usual painful symptoms. Nature,having become accustomed to the changed position, performs all herfunctions faithfully excepting that important one—reproduction, andfor the purpose of this, all that is necessary is to introduce the Fig. 128.
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LOCAL INADAPTATION. fecundating fluid of the male into the uterus, or bring it in directcontact with the mouth of the womb. I trust the reader will bear patiently with me while I enter into anextended explanation of the diagrams. Let us look them over care-fully together, for local inadaptation should be carefully studied bythe childless. It is, as I have already said, not only the most com-mon cause of unfruitfulness, but also one which is the most easilyremedied without the aid of a skillful physician experienced in thetreatment of sterility. 494 HINTS TO THE CHILDLESS. A, represents the womb in the right position, but the organ of themale is some seven or eight inches long, and, therefore, passes themouth of the womb. Although the average length of the male organis six inches, in many cases it is seven, and in some, as long as eightor nine inches, while in a few, and I might say extraordinary ones,its length is greater than I have mentioned. Practically, this in-adaptation amounts

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