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Page 69 - Physio' ogically considered, it is not a fact that the power of secreting semen is annihilated -in well-formed adults leading a healthy life and yet remaining continent.
Page 30 - Sometimes this doctrine is dressed up in the saying that women are mothers and beyond that nothing. What a man who says that really means is that women are created primarily for the sex gratification of men, and secondarily, for the bearing of children if he happens to want them, but of no more children than he wants. As the result of this belief the relation between man and woman has centred in the physical. What is more, the relation between man and woman has been that of an owner and his property...
Page 88 - In the case of gonococcic infection, the individual risks the wife is made to incur are much more serious than those following syphilis. The infection may invade the cavity of the uterus and ascend to the annexial organs, causing salpingitis, ovaritis, peritonitis, etc., destroying her conceptional capacity and rendering her irrevocably sterile, to say nothing of the resulting dangers to life and the frequent necessity of surgical operations to remove her tubes and ovaries.
Page 49 - Morrow's statement that gonorrhoea is the most widespread and universal of all diseases in the adult male population, I have to present the following facts : At the three hospitals above mentioned, during the eight years from 1903 to 1910 inclusive, there were treated 35,852 cases of the different pyogenic infections, 18,413 cases of tuberculosis, 10,197 cases of diphtheria, 5,546 cases of pneumonia, and only 4,819...
Page 151 - ... medical officer, and, if found diseased, is turned out of the house, with the choice of either leaving the cantonments or of proceeding to the "voluntary" hospital belonging to the Government. She is not allowed to return to her original residence until discharged from the hospital in a supposedly "fit" state to resume her former occupation. 'Under such regulations the British Government does that which no Government ought to do, gives a vested interest in houses of this kind. The occupation...
Page 19 - ... man-made law, been acting only in accordance with human nature, and nobody can punish him for that. One is forced to the conclusion, if one accepts men's account of themselves, that women's human nature is something very much cleaner, stronger, and higher than the human nature of men. But Suffragists, at any rate, hope that this is not really true. They have more faith in men than men have in themselves, and they believe that a man can live as pure and moral a life as a woman can.
Page 62 - The functions of the testicle, like those of the mammary gland and the uterus, may be suspended for a long period, possibly for life ; and yet its structure may be sound, and capable of being roused into activity.
Page 75 - innocent" in every sense of the word. She is incapable of foreseeing, powerless to prevent this injury. She often pays with her life for her blind confidence in the man who, ignorantly or carelessly, passes over to her a disease he has received from a prostitute.
Page 89 - It used to be thought that whereas syphilis was a constitutional disease affecting the organism as a whole, gonorrhoea was a purely local disease, affecting only the sex organs. But the greatest experts are now coming to the conclusion that gonorrhoea, besides being a disease of the sex organs, must also be regarded as a constitutional malady. A statement on this point made by Dr. Prince Morrow, is as follows :
Page 94 - Noeggerath was right when he said the gonococcus can exist in the tissues throughout the lifetime of the individual, and at any time, under favourable influences, the infection may light upon what appears to be a new and acute infection, or may transmit a virulent infection without itself becoming manifest.