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...that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches of alkaline baking soda and water before conception...
Cancer of the Uterus. Lacerations, erosions and inflammations of childbirth may easily develop into cancer. Most uterine cancer occurs in women who have borne five or six children. The use of irritating antiseptics in the vagina, and excessive activity of ovarian hormones, may also stimulate cancerous growths. Often uterine cancer develops with amazing rapidity, within a few months after labor. Only periodic pelvic examinations will reveal such early cancers...
...female (ovarian) pseudo-hermaphrodites, after removal of the male-like appendages, the usual problem is to correct the vagina if it is rudimentary, or to create one if it is missing. The late Dr. L. Grant Baldwin of Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...
...continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology to upset which he thought would be disastrous. Therefore he removed the testes and the clitoris, tried to restore female...
...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...