Identifier: feminologyguidef00dres (find matches)
Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hould be prudent indiet, exercise, and in all things whereby her own and herchilds health may be conserved. A child born at as early a gestative period as five months,has by extreme care been made to live. While those atsix, seven, or eight months, have proportionately betterchances for life. Feticide — the intentional destruction of the unborn —is of such frequent practice as to bring upon the Americanpeople the appellation of a nation of murderers. Womenin all stations of life practice it without fear of results orconsequences. Some there are who do not wish socialpleasures interrupted by maternity. Other women, youngand unmarried, resort to the practice to shield their honor. A still greater class, maddened by an undesiredand enforced maternity, seek a supposed relief in feticide. Feticide is taking life. No more surely would a womandestroy her own flesh and blood if she took her smiling,prattling year-old and strangled it while its bright eyeslooked reproach back into her own.
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\\\0*&& The Plan of Fetal Circulation. As the lungs of the fetus are dormant, the fetal circulation is a very interestingphenomenon. The blood, passing from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery,instead of entering the lungs, passes, almost entirely, through the duct arterios into thedescending aorta. From here the larger part is conveyed through the umbilical arteries to the placenta, where the interchanges with the maternal blood take place. After being thusrenovated and recharged with oxygen, it collects within the umbilical vein and passes back to the fetal liver. Here a part of it circulates through this organ, while the rest passes directthrough the ductus venosus, into the inferior vena cava, where it again meets the blood broughtfrom the liver by the hepatic vein, and the two mixing with that returning from the lowerextremities and viscera of the abdomen enter the right auricle, and by the Eustachian valvepass into the left auricle, where it becomes mixed with a

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