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Updated: May 31, 2025
They may do so by counting back thirteen weeks from the day of conception; but this method also is subject to error for, as we have noted, the duration of pregnancy reckoned in this more exact manner is not constant. Such a calculation rarely offers any advantage over that made from the menstrual record.
Among the indigenous Australians, menstrual superstition was so intense that one of the native blacks, who discovered his wife lying on his blanket during her menstrual period, killed her, and died of terror himself in a fortnight. Hence, Australian women during this season are forbidden to touch anything that men use.
This is especially true of the menopause in women, and often enough of each menstrual period. That there is a climacteric in men is not so clear, but something corresponding to it occurs, at least in the case of some men. In addition, these activities, which are so all-important, determine the basic conduct by arousing the basic appetites and desires of the individual.
On this fact must he based the pathologic symptoms accompanying the cessation of the menstrual function." The importance of the genital organs is shown by the vast nerve-supply sent to them.
The right to have children when wanted A matter of choice Difference between infanticide, abortion and prevention of pregnancy How husband and wife can tell when there is no danger of impregnation A rule of coitus which should never be violated What information about pregnancy may be gained from menstrual period Most women have two weeks of "free time" each month Freedom from fear an accomplishment which adds to happiness of marriage.
An exact estimate is but guess work; errors of one or two weeks either way may be made by the most experienced, as in cases where conception occurred shortly before the next menstrual period, which did not then appear.
Usually the nausea begins just after a menstrual period has been missed, and ceases about the third month or a little later. But morning sickness is never counted an indication of pregnancy unless taken in conjunction with other symptoms, for individuals who are not pregnant may also suffer from nausea in the morning.
Another prescription: Calcium chloride, two and one-half drams; syrup, fifteen drams; water, six ounces. Dose: One tablespoonful morning and night. MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES: Extracts of cramp bark, forty grains; blue cohosh, ten grains; Squaw wine, forty grains; pokeberry, twenty grains; strychnine, one grain. Make forty pills. Dose: One pill four times a day until relieved.
Helen Kennedy refers to the "modesty" which makes it impossible even for mothers and daughters to speak to each other concerning the menstrual functions. "Thirty-six girls in this high school passed into womanhood with no knowledge whatever, from a proper source, of all that makes them women.
All the ancient civilizations had such taboos upon the menstruous woman. According to Pliny, the Romans held that nothing had such marvellous efficacy as, or more deadly qualities than, the menstrual flow. The epithet Niddah, applied to a woman at that time, means "to lay under a ban."
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