Its Treatment--Necessity for Medical Advice in Pernicious Vomiting--Anorexia--Bulimia-- Aversion Towards Certain Foods--Peculiar Cravings--Tendency to Constipation Aggravated by Pregnancy--Dietary Measures in [10]Constipation--Rectal Injections in Constipation--Laxatives--Cause of Frequent Desire to Urinate During First Two or Three and Last Months of Pregnancy--Treatment of Frequent Urination--Cause of Piles During Pregnancy and Their Treatment--Cause of Itching of External Genitals During Pregnancy and Treatment--Cause of Varicose Veins and Treatment--Liver Spots. XII. When to Engage a Physician 102 Necessity for the Pregnant Woman Immediately Placing Herself Under Care of Physician and Remaining Under His Care During Entire Period. XIII. The Size of the Fetus 105 Approximately Correct Measurements and Weight of Fetus at End of Each Month of Pregnancy. XIV. The Afterbirth (Placenta) and Cord 108 How the Afterbirth Develops--Bag of Waters--Umbilical Cord--The Navel--Fetus Nourished by Absorption--Fetus Breathes by Aid of Placenta--No Nervous Connection Between Mother and Child. XV. Lactation or Nursing 110 No Perfect Substitute for Mother's Milk--When Nursing is Injurious to Mother and Child--Modified Milk--Artificial Foods--Care Essential in Selecting Wet Nurse--Suckling Child Benefits Mother--Reciprocal Affection Strengthened by Nursing--Sexual Feelings While Nursing--Alcoholics are Injurious--Attention to Condition of Nipples During Pregnancy Essential--Treatment of Sunken Nipples--Treatment of Tender Nipples--Treatment of Cracked Nipples--How to Stop the Secretion of Milk When Necessary-- Menstruation While Nursing--Pregnancy in the Nursing Woman. XVI. Abortion and Miscarriage 117 Definition of Word Abortion--Definition of Word Miscarriage--Spontaneous Abortion--Induced Abortion--Therapeutic Abortion--Criminal Abortion--Missed Abortion--Habitual Abortion--[11]Syphilis as Cause of Abortion and Miscarriage--Dangers of Abortion--Abortion an Evil. XVII. Prenatal Care 121 Meaning of the Term--Misleading Information by Quasi-Scientists--Exaggerated Ideas Regarding Prenatal Care--Nervous Connection Between Mother and Child--Cases Under Author's Observation--Effects on Offspring--Advice to Pregnant Women-- Germ-plasm of Chronic Alcoholic--A Glass of Wine and the Spermatozoa--False Statements--Cases of Violence and Accidents During Pregnancy. XVIII. The Menopause, or Change of Life 128 Time of Menopause--Cause of Suffering During Menopause--Reproductive Function and Sexual Function Not Synonymous--Increased Libido During Menopause--Change of Life in Men. XIX. The Habit of Masturbation 135 Definition of Masturbation--Its Injurious Effects in Girls as Compared with Boys--Married Life of the Girl Masturbator--Necessity for Change in Injurious Attitude of Parents who Discover the Habit--Common-sense Treatment of the Habit--How to Prevent Formation of Habit--Parents' Advice to Children--Hot Baths as Factor in Masturbation--Other Physical Factors--Mental Masturbation and Its Effects. XX. Leucorrhea--the Whites 143 Misconception Regarding the Meaning of the Term "Leucorrhea"--A Common Complaint--Severe Cases--Reasons for Resistance 4 to Treatment--Proper Local Treatment of the Disorder--Sterility Due to Leucorrhea--Causes of Leucorrhea--Tonic Medicines-- Local Treatment--Formulae for Douching. XXI. The Venereal Diseases 149 Derivation of Word "Venereal"--Three Venereal Diseases--Innocent Contraction of Syphilis Through Various Objects--The Hygienic Elimination of Common Sources of Venereal Infection--Measures [12]for Prevention After Sexual Relations. XXII. The Extent of Venereal Disease 151 Former Ban on Discussion of Venereal Disease and Its Evil Results--Present Reprehensible Exaggerations of Extent of Venereal Disease--Erroneous and Ridiculous Statements of "Reformers"--Senseless Fear of Marriage in Girls Due to Lurid Exaggerations--Study by Woman Psychologist Reveals Harmful Results of Exaggerated Statements--Truth in Regard to Percentage of Men Afflicted with Venereal Disease. XXIII. Gonorrhea 158 Source of Gonorrhea--Mucous Membrane of Genital Organs and of Eye Principal Seats of Disease--Symptoms in Men and in Women--Vagina Seldom Attacked in Adults--Nobody Inherits Gonorrhea--Ophthalmia Neonatorum--Differences of Course of Disease in Men and Women--Gonorrhea Less Painful in Women--Symptoms not Suspected by Woman--Necessity for the Woman Consulting a Physician--Self-treatment When Woman Cannot Consult Physician--Formulae for Injections. XXIV. Vulvovaginitis in Little Girls 164 Former Causes of Vulvovaginitis in Little Girls--Discharge Chief Symptom--Evil Results of Vulvovaginitis--Psychic Results of Treatment--Effects in Hastening Sexual Maturity--Vulvovaginitis a Cause of Permanent Sterility--Measures to Prevent the Disease--Toilet Seats and Vulvovaginitis. XXV. Syphilis 168 Syphilis Due to Germ--Syphilis a Constitutional Disease--Primary Lesion--Incubation Period--Roseola--Primary Stage--Secondary Stage--Mucous Patches--Tertiary Stage--Gumma--Hereditary Nature of Syphilis--Milder Course in Women Than in Men--Obscure Symptoms in Syphilis--Necessity for Examination by Physician--Locomotor Ataxia--Softening of the Brain-- Chancroids. XXVI. The Curability of Venereal Disease 174[13] Gonorrhea May Be Practically Cured in Every Case in Man--Extensive Gonorrheal Infection in Woman Difficult to Cure--Positive Cure in Syphilis Impossible to Guarantee. XXVII. Venereal Prophylaxis 177 Necessity for Douching Before and After Suspicious Intercourse--Formulae for Douches--Precautions Against Non-venereal Sources of Infection--Syphilis Transmitted by Dentist's Instruments--Manicurists and Syphilis--Promiscuous Kissing a Source of Syphilitic Infection. XXIII. Alcohol, Sex and Venereal Disease 181 Alcoholic Indulgence and Venereal Disease--A Champagne Dinner and Syphilis--Percentage of Cases of Venereal Infection Due to Alcohol--Artificial Stimulation of Sex Instinct in Man and in Woman--Reckless Sexual Indulgence Due to Alcohol--Alcohol as an Aid to Seduction. XXIX. Marriage and Gonorrhea 187 Decision of Physician Regarding Marriage of Patients Infected with Gonorrhea or Syphilis--Advisability of Certificate of Freedom from Transmissible Disease--Premarital Examination as a Universal Custom--When a Man Who Had Gonorrhea May Be Allowed to Marry--When a Woman Who Had Gonorrhea May be Allowed to Marry--Antisepsis Before Coitus--Question of Sterility in the Man Who Has Had Gonorrhea Easily Answered--Impossibility of Determining Whether the Woman is Fertile or Not. XXX. Marriage and Syphilis 195 Rules for Permitting a Syphilitic Patient to Marry--Rules More Severe in Cases Where Children Are Desired--Where Both Partners Are Syphilitic--Danger of Paresis in Some Syphilitic Patients--A Case in the Author's Practice. XXXI. Who May and Who May Not Marry 200 The Physician Often Consulted as to Advisability of Marriage--Venereal Disease the Most Common Question--Tuberculosis--Sexual Appetite of Tubercular Patients--[14]Effect of Pregnancy Contraceptive Knowledge for Tubercular Wife--Heart Disease--Serious Bar to Marriage--Influence of Sexual Intercourse--Cancer--Fear of Hereditary Transmission--Exophthalmic 5 Goiter--Most Frequent in Women--Simple Goiter--Exceptions to Rule--Obesity--Family History--Obesity and Stoutness Not Synonymous--Arteriosclerosis--Danger in Sexual Act--Gout--Real Causes of Gout--Mumps--Parotid Glands and Sex Or-gans--Mumps and Sterility--Oophoritis Due to Mumps--Hemophilia--Hemophilic Sons May Marry--Hemophilic Daughters May Not Marry--Anemia--Chlorosis--Epilepsy--Hysteria--Symptoms of Hysteria--Marriage of Hysterical Women--Alcoholism-- Effect on Offspring--Alcoholics and Impotence--Feeblemindedness--Evil Effects on Offspring--Sterilization of Feebleminded Only Preventive--Insanity--Functional Insanity--Organic Insanity--Hereditary Transmissibility of Insanity--Fear Resulting in Insanity--Environment versus Heredity in Insanity--Neurosis--Neurasthenia--Psychasthenia--Neuropathy--Psychopathy--Nervous Conditions and Genius--Sexual Impotence and Genius--Drug Addiction--External Causes--Consanguineous Marriages-- When Consanguineous Marriages are Advisable--Offspring of Consanguineous Marriages--Homosexuality--Homosexuals Often Ignorant of Their Condition--Sexual Repression and Homosexuality--Sadism and Divorce--Masochism--Sexual Impotence and Marriage--Effect Upon the Wife--Frigidity--Marital Relations and Frigid Woman--Excessive Libido and Marriage--Excessive Demands Upon Wife--Satyriasis--The Excessively Libidinous Wife--Nymphomania--Treatment--Harelip--Myopia--Astigmatism--Premature Baldness--Criminality--Crime as Result of Environment--Legal and Moral Crime--Ancestral Criminality and Marriage--Rules of Heredity--Pauperism--Difference Between Pauperism and Poverty. XXXII. Birth Control Or the Limitation of Offspring 244 Knowledge of Prevention of Conception Essential--Misapprehensions Concerning Birth-control Propaganda--Modern Contraceptives Not Injurious to Health--Imperfection of Contraceptive Measures Due to Secrecy--Prevention of Conception and Abortion Radically Different--More Marriages Consummated if Birth-control Information were Legally Obtainable--Demand for Prostitution Would be Curtailed--Venereal Disease Due to Lack of [15]Knowledge--Another Phase of the Birth-control Problem--Knowledge of Contraceptive Methods Where There Was a Taint of Insanity, and the Happy Results. XXXIII. Advice To Girls Approaching the Threshold of Womanhood 261 The Irresistible Attraction of the Young Girl for the Male--The Unprotected Girl's Temptations--Some Men Who Will Pester the Young Girl--Risk of Venereal Infection--Danger of Impregnation--Use of Contraceptives by the Unmarried Woman May Not Always Be Relied Upon--Nature of Men who Seduce Girls--Exceptions--Illegitimate Motherhood--Difficulties in the Way of Illegitimate Mother Who Must Earn Her Living--The Child
