Varieties of chorea. Differentiation. Prognosis. Hysteria. Causes. Epidemics of hysteria. Symptoms. Prognosis 182-186 CHAPTER XVII ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF THE LIVER IN PREGNANCY Icterus gravis. Causes. Symptoms. Prognosis 187-188 CHAPTER XVIII INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PREGNANCY Effects on mother and fetus. Abortions in infectious diseases. Placental permeability. Typhoid. Smallpox. Pneumonia. Influenza. Scarlatina. Measles. Cholera. Tuberculosis. Artificial abortion in tuberculosis 189-200 CHAPTER XIX SYPHILIS IN PREGNANCY AND MARRIAGE Prognosis. Abortion. Infection of mother and fetus. Colles' Law. Erroneous notions on the curability of syphilis. Once a syphilitic probably always a syphilitic. The professional secret in syphilis. Nature of secrets. The physician may warn an innocent person 201-211 CHAPTER XX GONORRHOEA IN MARRIAGE The cause of gonorrhoea. Tests of cure. Effects on a woman. Chronicity. Prevalence. Surgical treatment in women. Morality of the surgical treatment. Conservative surgery. Salpingotomy. Ovariotomy. Evil effects of ovariotomy. Internal secretion of the ovary. Results of various operations. Pregnancy after operation. Morality of infection. General effects of gonorrhoea. Ophthalmia neonatorum and gonorrhoea 212-229 CHAPTER XXI DIABETES IN PREGNANCY Fatality of diabetes in pregnancy. Diagnosis. Sterility of diabetics. Prognosis. Heredity in diabetes. Therapeutic abortion in diabetes 230-231 CHAPTER XXII CHILDBIRTH IN TWILIGHT SLEEP Twilight sleep to avert pain in parturition. Stages of labor. Drugs used. Scopolamine and morphine. Danger in the use of these drugs in labor. Contradictory report of physicians on twilight sleep. Eminent authorities opposed to the methods. Baer's report on the evil effects. The methods are morally illicit and useless 232-244 CHAPTER XXIII VASECTOMY, OR STERILIZATION, BY STATE LAW The States that have this law. Reasons for the law. Hereditary transmission of certain diseases. The operation. Its effects. Restoration of the function of the interrupted vas deferens. Vasectomy and impotence. Onanism. Vasectomy effects impotence from the moral point of view. Other conditions in the male that effect moral impotence. Immorality of artificial impregnation. Vasectomy a grave mutilation. Vasectomy as ordinarily practised is illicit. The State and vasectomy. The limitations of the State's dominion. The State surgeon and vasectomy. Bibliography 245-268 CHAPTER XXIV THE ETHICS OF BIRTH CONTROL 269 Index 281 PREFACE