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CHAPTER V.

It is well known that but few enceinte women escape morning sickness in the first part of pregnancy, and some suffer all through the nine months. But that the husbands of such women should suffer instead of them, has always been a mystery that has called forth no further explanation than that "it was because of sympathy." There have been instances where the first symptom of the enteinte condition of a man's wife was his own sickness of the stomach in less than twenty-four hours after her conception. So unvarying and so marked has this been, that a rude joke has come from other men that they could always tell to a day when a certain man would need a doctor for his wife. This has been a course of so great annoyance that men thus effected have kept as much out of the way of jokers as was possible, even to the injury of business matters. Jokes in any form in relation to the giving of life and immortality, are beneath people with any pretensions to a knowledge of the grandeur and responsibility of human antenatal development.

The sickness of the stomach is owing to the sym-

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pathy that exists between the nerves of the uterus and the nerves of the stomach. And as man has no uterus or womb, that he should suffer all the terrible nausea, and his wife be perfectly free, is owing not to an ordinary sympathy, for he could not sympathize before his wife knew her own condition, neither could he sympathize because of witnessing a deathly sickness of the stomach in her, since she does not experience any; therefore we must delve for a deeper reason, and in so doing we find that it is the wonderful fine magnetic intelligence that is communicated through her nerves to his nerves. In a word these nerves of the organs of sex, are wonderful knowing and have a wonderful power of telling before the brain does, and have power superior to the organs of speech in communicating such knowledge.

All married people learn of acts and motives of each other in this wonderful manner, and the freer they are from any sexual wrong the clearer and truer will be the knowledge thus gained. Unthinking, unreasoning people even, often get distinct ideas of moral wrongs through this nerve power, then they have no other means of knowing, and it matters not how much such an untrue person may protest that the true one has no cause for jealousy, the knowledge thus gained cannot be blown away by a breath of denial.

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a wrong of some kind, although they do not always get distinct ideas of just the character of such wrong.

Men sometimes take the pains of their wives, and thus relieve them from suffering without any intention to do so.

It is not always a sympathy that exists between married people that causes them to take each other's pains, but a power that is not yet fully understood. As an evidence of this, a man whose wife was taken with severe labor pains in the middle of a bitter cold night, refused to go to a neighbor's for a long time, telling her she could wait until morning if she tried. He at last went in an angry mood and left the outside door wide open. His wife said whe wished with all earnestness and prayed that he might have just as severe pains as she had, that he might understand her sufferings; and soon after all her pains left, and a neighbor woman came to her alone, saying that her husband had such pains that he had to lie down in the street until he got over them. These pains continued at intervals after his return home all through the night and until her child was born, while her own pains were scarcely felt. We are acquainted with parties who were themselves cognizant of the facts in the case just related.

Man who have morning sickness when their wives are enceinte, would find that it would soon cease if they would obey the great law of justice to antenatal

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posterity, by allowing all the strength of the prospective mother to be given to the child in utero, instead of making sexual demands upon her.

This is not always true however, for young men who run away to another part of the country, or even to foreign shores, to cure dyspepsia when they have seduced girls and left them in enceinte conditions, find that the world is not large enough to get away from the great law of the language of the nerves that cannot be controverted.

Every man ought to understand that much of the suffering of wives from sickness of the stomach, both while pregnant and at other times, is a result of copulation.