SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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1. Dr. Parviz Hanjani 2. Dr. John F. Gorman

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6. 10. % •y I © ' © ' » ' ;•••: ON THE INDULGENCE AND RESTRAINT OF SEXUAL DESIRE The act of generation is a voluntary one. But nature has so placed it underthe empire of plea- sure that the voice of discretion is no longer heard, and the will is often led captive. Hence, it is well, for hygienic reasons, to consider the laws . , . The too frequent repetition of the reproductive act is known to be followed by consequences injurious to the general health. . . The abuse of bodily pleasures produces lassitude and weakness. Beauty of figure and grace of movement are sacrificed. When the excess is long continued, it occasions spasmodic and convulsive affections, enfeeblement of the senses, particularly that of sight, deprivation of the mental functions, loss of memory, pulmonary consumption, and death. A condition of intoxication in the husband is a proper ground for refusal. Fecundation taking place when either parent has been in this state has produced idiots and epileptics. This has happened again and again. The cases on re- cord are so numerous and well authenticated, as to admit of no doubt in regard to the fatal effect upon the mind of the offspring of con- ception under such circumstances . . . — George H. Napheys, M.D. From The Physical Life of Woman , published 1869

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THE HELLINIZED LADIES of the Ptol- emaic period seldom nursed their own children. Definite contracts were made with slave women, who stipulated to nourish the child on milk up to its third year for a definite sum and their living. During the first six months, the nurse was to give the infant her own breast; the wet-nursing contracts called for pure unadulterated milk, i.e. that the nurse should not spoil her breast- milk by a faulty diet. During the re- maining eighteen months, the infant was nourished artificially on cow ' smilk. There was a regular daily delivery of THE BEST COW ' S MILK in a pitcher of 18 cotyles capacity; and unounc- tual delivery was severely punished-- but on legal, not on hygienic, grounds. 1. Dr. Frank A. Oski, Chairman 2. Dr. Marie J. Stuart 3. Dr. James A. Stockman 4. Dr. Mary L. Voorhess 5. Ms. Karen Smith Ms. Eileen Buchert