Searchlights on Health eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 507 pages of information about Searchlights on Health.

Searchlights on Health eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 507 pages of information about Searchlights on Health.

7.  FEMALE MAGNETISM.—­When the male organ comes in contact with female magnetism, the natural and proper excitement takes place.  When excited without this female magnetism it becomes one of the most serious injuries to the human body.  The male organ was made for a high and holy purpose, and woe be to him who pollutes his manhood by practicing the secret vice.  He pays the penalty in after years either by the entire loss of sexual power, or by the afflictions of various urinary diseases.

8.  NATURE PAYS all her debts, and when there is an abuse of organ, penalties must follow.  If the hand is thrust into the fire it will be burnt.

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THE FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.

1.  The generative or reproductive organs of the human female are usually divided into the internal and external.  Those regarded as internal are concealed from view and protected within the body.  Those that can be readily perceived are termed external.  The entrance of the vagina may be stated as the line of demarcation of the two divisions.

[Illustration:  ANATOMY OR STRUCTURE OF THE FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION.]

2.  HYMEN OR VAGINAL VALVE.—­This is a thin membrane of half moon shape stretched across the opening of the vagina.  It usually contains before marriage one or more small openings for the passage of the menses.  This membrane has been known to cause much distress in many females at the first menstrual flow.  The trouble resulting from the openings in the hymen not being large enough to let the flow through and consequently blocking up the vaginal canal, and filling the entire internal sexual organs with blood; causing paroxysms and hysterics and other alarming symptoms.  In such cases the hymen must be ruptured that a proper discharge may take place at once.

[Illustration:  Impregnated Egg.  In the first formation of Embryo.]

3.  UNYIELDING HYMEN.—­The hymen is usually ruptured by the first sexual intercourse, but sometimes it is so unyielding as to require the aid of a knife before coition can take place.

4.  THE PRESENCE OF THE HYMEN was formerly considered a test of virginity, but this theory is no longer held by competent authorities, as disease or accidents or other circumstances may cause its rupture.

5.  THE OVARIES.—­The ovaries are little glands for the purpose of forming the female ova or egg.  They are not fully developed until the period of puberty, and usually are about the size of a large chestnut.  The are located in the broad ligaments between the uterus and the Fallopian tubes.  During pregnancy the ovaries change position; they are brought farther into the abdominal cavity as the uterus expands.

6.  OFFICE OF THE OVARY.—­The ovary is to the female what the testicle is to the male.  It is the germ vitalizing organ and the most essential part of the generative apparatus.  The ovary is not only an organ for the formation of the ova, but is also designed for their separation when they reach maturity.

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