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Excerpt from On the Causes and Treatment of Abortion and Sterility: Being the Result of an Extended Practical Inquiry Into the Physiological and Morbid Conditions of the Uterus, With Reference Especially to Leucorrhoeal Affection and the Diseases of Menstruation
Among the objects. Of research to which men of science have di rected attention of late years, few have possessed a higher intrinsic interest than the Function of Reproduction; and, considering the numerous difficulties that prejudice and the peculiar nature of the subject opposed, there are perhaps few branches in which their la bours have been more fruitfully rewarded. The multitude of con ?icting theories which had from time to time been promulgated with a view to explain the various phenomena ofthis mysterious process, many. Of them equally absurd and unphilosophical, and all insufficient for the purpose, - have in great measure vanished before the light of modern investigation; and the subject, if not fully elucidated in all its parts, is at least placed upon a surer scientific basis.
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