The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 2 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
By courtesy of The New York Times New York's Better Baby
Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York's Better Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl that will make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score card showed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35-1/2 inches; circumference of head, 19-1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20 inches; lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from front to back, 4-1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger, 14-1/2 inches; length of leg to the sole of the foot, 16-1/2 inches; total, 100 points.
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association
New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY 1914
Copyright, 1913, by W. Grant Hague Copyright, 1914, by W. Grant Hague
The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with them.
The pleasure in living is to meet temptation and not yield to it. Elmer Lee, M. D.
A Word to Parents—Interest in Sex Hygiene—The Social Evil —Ten Millions Suffering with Venereal Diseases in the United States—Immorality not Confined to Large Cities—Venereal Diseases Common in Country Places—What Are the Consequences of Venereal Disease to the Boy?—Gonorrhea, or Clap—Symptoms of Gonorrhea in the Male—Complications of Gonorrhea—Syphilis, or the Pox —How Syphilis is Acquired—Syphilis Attacks Every Organ in the Body—Not Possible to Tell When Cured—The Chancre—Systematic or Constitutional Symptoms—Mucous Patches and Ulcers—Syphilis of the Blood Vessels and Lymphatic Glands—The Interior Organs—Brain and Spinal Cord—The Nose, Eye, Ear, Throat—Hair and Nails—What the Boy with Venereal Disease May Cause in Others—The Infected Wife—A Girl's Fate When She Marries—Young Wife Rendered Sterile—Young Wife Made to Miscarry—Is the Husband to Blame?—Building the Man—Age of Puberty— Internal Secretion.
W. Grant Hague
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The Eugenic Marriage
A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sex Hygiene for the Boy
CHAPTER XII
BUILDING OUR BOYS
CHAPTER XIII
THE PARENTS AND THE BOY
CHAPTER XIV
A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XV
PREPARING FOR MOTHERHOOD
CHAPTER XVI
HYGIENE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABY
CHAPTER XVII
BABY'S FEEDING HABITS
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER
CHAPTER XXII
CONSTIPATION IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
CHAPTER XXIII
CONSTIPATION IN WOMEN
SEX HYGIENE FOR THE BOY
CHAPTER XII
BUILDING OUR BOYS
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF VENEREAL DISEASE TO THE BOY HIMSELF?
WHAT THE BOY WITH VENEREAL DISEASE MAY CAUSE IN OTHERS
CHAPTER XIII
THE PARENTS AND THE BOY
CHAPTER XIV
A MOTHER'S DUTY TO HER DAUGHTER
WHAT A MOTHER SHOULD TELL HER DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XV
PREPARING FOR MOTHERHOOD
MENSTRUATION
STERILITY
CONDITIONS WHICH AFFECT THE FERTILITY OF WOMEN
CAUSES OF STERILITY IN WOMEN
THE KNACK OF MISCARRYING
MISCARRIAGE
THE BABY
CHAPTER XVI
HYGIENE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABY
CHAPTER XVII
BABY'S FEEDING HABITS
FRESH AIR FOR BABY
CHAPTER XVIII
BABY'S GOOD AND BAD HABITS. FOOD FORMULAS
BABY'S BED
KISSING
ESTABLISHING TOILET HABITS
FOOD FORMULAS
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING
CHAPTER XIX
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING
CHAPTER XX
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING—CONTINUED
TABLE OF STANDARDS
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW
CHAPTER XXI
THE EDUCATION OF THE MOTHER
CHAPTER XXII
CONSTIPATION IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
CHAPTER XXIII
CONSTIPATION IN WOMEN