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The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies By: W. Grant Hague (1868-) |
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NEW YORK'S BETTER BABY Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York's
Better Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl
that will make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score
card showed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35 1/2
inches; circumference of head, 19 1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20
inches; lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from
front to back, 4 1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger,
14 1/2 inches; length of leg to the sole of the foot, 16 1/2 inches;
total, 100 points.]
The Eugenic Marriage A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies By W. GRANT HAGUE, M. D. College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York;
Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical
Association In Four Volumes VOLUME II New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY 1914 Copyright, 1913, by
W. GRANT HAGUE Copyright, 1914, by
W. GRANT HAGUE
TABLE OF CONTENTS SEX HYGIENE FOR THE BOY CHAPTER XII BUILDING OUR BOYS PAGE A word to parents Interest in sex hygiene The "Social Evil" Ten
millions suffering with venereal diseases in the United
States Immorality not confined to large cities Venereal diseases
common in country places What are the consequences of venereal disease
to the boy? Gonorrhea, or clap Symptoms of gonorrhea in the
male Complications of gonorrhea Syphilis, or the "pox" How syphilis
is acquired Syphilis attacks every organ in the body Not possible to
tell when cured The chancre Systematic, or constitutional
symptoms Mucous patches and ulcers Syphilis of the blood vessels and
lymphatic glands The interior organs Brain and spinal cord The nose,
eye, ear, throat Hair and nails What the boy with venereal disease may
cause in others The infected wife A girl's fate when she
marries Young wife rendered sterile Young wife made to miscarry Is
the husband to blame Building the man Age of puberty "Internal
Secretion" ... PAGE 139
CHAPTER XIII THE PARENTS AND THE BOY Abuse of the procreative function The continent life Provide the
environment necessary to the clean life The period of procreative
power Self abuse Masturbation Treatment of masturbation Night losses
or wet dreams Causes of night emissions Sexual excesses Treatment of
sexual excesses What parents should know about the so called "social
evil" before speaking with authority to the boy The need of
enlightenment in sexual matters "No one told me, I did not know" Fake
medical treatment of venereal diseases Sowing wild oats Should
circumcision be advised ... PAGE 153
SEX HYGIENE FOR THE GIRL CHAPTER XIV A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER What a mother should tell her little girl Where do babies come
from How baby birds and fish come from eggs How other animals have
little nests of their own The duty of mothers to instruct and
direct What a mother should tell her daughter Every mother should
regard this duty as sacred Every female child is a possible future
mother Motherhood the highest function of the sex Health the one
necessary essential Symptoms of the first, or beginning
menstruation The period of puberty in the female Changes in the
reproductive organs at puberty The female generative organs The
function of the reproductive organs The age of puberty in the
female The function of the ovary The function of the womb Why
menstruation occurs every twenty eight days The male or papa egg The
function of the spermatozoa "Tell the whole story" "How do these
spermatozoa get there" The union of the species "How can a baby live
in there for such a long time" How the baby gets its nourishment in the
womb Girls must not become mothers ... PAGE 173
CHAPTER XV PREPARING FOR MOTHERHOOD Menstruation Irregular menstruation Changes in the quantity
of the flow How the womb is held in place Symptoms of
menstruation Menstruation should not be accompanied with pain Don't
give your daughters patent medicines, or "Female Regulators" Take your
daughter to the doctor Leucorrhea in girls Bathing when
menstruating Constipation and displaced wombs Dress and
menstruation Absence of menstruation, or amenorrhea Treatment of
amenorrhea Painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea Causes of
dysmenorrhea Treatment of dysmenorrhea Sterility in the
female Conditions which affect the fertility of women Climate, station
in life, season of the year, age, the tendency to miscarry Causes of
sterility in the female Displacement of womb Diseases of womb,
ovaries, or tubes Malformations Lacerations Tumors Leucorrhea Physical
debility Obesity Special poisons "Knack of miscarrying" Miscarriage Cause
of miscarriage The course and symptoms of miscarriage What to do
when a miscarriage is threatened Treatment of threatened
miscarriage Treatment of inevitable miscarriage After
treatment of miscarriage The tendency to miscarriage ... Continue reading book >>
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