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Report of Colorado State Board of Health (Volume 3). Colorado State Board of Health

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Author: Colorado State Board of Health
Number of Pages: 36 pages
Published Date: 03 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235655845
Download Link: Report of Colorado State Board of Health (Volume 3)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... The Incompatibility Of Higher Education With The Duties Of Motherhood, BY HENRY K. PALMER, M. D. The subject that I have the honor to present to you has not, I believe, been touched upon by the advocates of higher education, nor, so far as I can ascertain, has it been taken into account by the opponents of that idea; though, as it seems to me, it is the most powerful argument that nature offers against the enforced application of the female mind to intellectual pursuits, and nature, s strongest plea that the mothers of a race should be shielded from all those absorbing anxieties that require an expenditure of materials that were designed for other purposes. The first point, to which I shall ask your attention, is the similarity in some respects of nerve tissue, brain substance (especially the grey matter), the yolk of egg and milk. All these substances contain a notable amount of phosphorus in various combinations. Milk, our food and drink during the earliest months of life, supplying all the elements of growth of nerve, brain and bone, contains about one per cent, of earthy phosphates in its solid ingredients. In the eggs of the common fowl and our other domestic birds we have nearly twenty-five per cent, of a phosphoric compound in the form of lecithine; and it is reasonable to suppose that in the ovum of so highly an organized creature as the human female, the proportion is still larger and the combination finer. It is evident then that these substances play an important part in the beginning of life, in the very conceptive process itself and the substructure built immediately upon it; and hence it is clear that sexual health must be that condition in which the ova are filled regularly and ripened fully by an abundant supply of lecithine; where there is..

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