English: Outdoor Sports for Women: "Lawn tennis, as shown in the figure at the left, and golf, as indicated in the figure at the right, are two of the best sports for women, giving needed exercise and developing the figure."

Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ation. Coming events cast their shadow before.—Campbell.DETERMINATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF PREGNANCY. S a rule, it is not a difficult matter to determinewhether a woman is pregnant, although cases haveoccurred in which mistakes were made. Physicianshave operated on a supposed abdominal tumor only to find a pregnant uterus. There are certain symptoms, however, which are us-ually present in a woman who is with child. But they mayoccur in conditions other than pregnancy, and they maybe absent, though the woman be in a family way. Thephysician is the only person who is competent to decide. The Commonest Symptoms of Pregnancy.—The mostcommon symptoms of pregnancy experienced by the motherare (i) cessation of menstruation, (2) morning sickness,(3) changes in the size, shape and appearance of the ab-domen, (4) changes in the breasts, and (5) quickening. THE CESSATION OF MENSTRUATION. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, menstruationusually ceases. But its absence may depend upon other 156
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THE SYMPTOMS OF PBEGNANCY 157 causes, as in the condition known as amenorrhea, which isdescribed in Chapter XXXIV on Disorders of Menstrua-tion. In some few cases there is a slight bloody dischargeduring the first three months of pregnancy. It will thus beseen that the sign is not an invariable one. THE MORNING SICKNESS. At the sixth or seventh week of pregnancy nausea andvomiting appear, usually lasting to the third month, beingworse when the woman first arises from bed in the morn-ing, whence it derives the name morning sickness. It isnot always present and may exist in many other conditions. THE APPEARANCE OF THE FACE. After conception has occurred, dark, irregular splotches,resembling freckles, called chloasmata or liver marks, mayappear in the brow and cheeks, sometimes running so closelytogether as to form .the so-called mask of pregnancy.Dark rings also often form under the eyes. These, too,occur in other conditions and cannot be regarded asdiagnostic. CHANGES IN THE BREASTS. D

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