Australasian Medical Gazette: The Journal of the Australasian Branches of the British Medical Association, Volume 8L. Bruck, 1889 - Medicine |
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Page 123 - often quoted—" To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." It behoves us then not merely to hand
Page 303 - order to constitute the marriage bond between young persons, there must be the power present or to come of sexual intercourse. Without that power, neither of two principal ends of matrimony can be attained, namely, a lawful indulgence of the passions to prevent licentiousness, and the procreation of children
Page 303 - cannot go the length of saying that every degree of imperfection would deprive it of its essential character. There must be degrees difficult to deal with; but if so imperfect as scarcely to be natural, I should not hesitate to say that, legally speaking, it is no intercourse at all.
Page 306 - The object of this work is to give the student a few brief and practical directions respecting the management of ordinary cases of labour, and also to point out to him in extraordinary cases when and how he may act upon his own responsibility, and when he ought to send for assistance.
Page 303 - admit of it, the question which I have to decide is whether, looking at all the circumstances of the case, the state of the unfortunate respondent is such that, however much she is to be pitied. I can compel the petitioner to take her as his wife. Does the evidence shew what Dr.
Page 304 - not to have had intercourse with her husband after a reasonable time for consummation of the marriage, if it appears that she has abstained from intercourse, and resisted her husband's attempts, the Court will draw the inference that that refusal on her part arises from incapacity.
Page 303 - can never think that the true interest of society would be advanced by retaining within the marriage bond parties driven to such disgusting practices. Certainly it would not tend to the prevention of adulterous
Page 303 - the coitus itself is absolutely imperfect, and I must call it unnatural, there is not a natural indulgence of natural desire ; almost of necessity disgust is generated, and the probable consequences of other connections with men of ordinary self-control become almost certain.
Page 304 - must not simply arise from the wilful refusal of the wife to submit to her husband's embraces ; but in this case I am satisfied that the refusal of the respondent to consort with her husband as his wife arose from her continuing vaginismus. As the Judge Ordinary says in the case of
Page 304 - the Court has never resorted to it. The present case falls rather within the latter class. For if I may rely upon the petitioner's oath, the impotency is beyond a doubt ; and if I cannot rely upon her oath, I shall have no better ground for doing so by putting her to repeat the same story at the end of another