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438 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
work, Nature immediately robs woman of her charms,
and of that attraction which brings man toward
her." The husband now folds his arms around
her with a respectful tenderness, and a protective
love ; but he is no longer attracted to her by amorous
desires and every time he excites in her the sexual pas
sion, he robs his child of some portion of its vitality, and
his wife, of some of the strength she needs to sustain
her.
During pregnancy, while a new and powerful action
is going on in the uterus—the evolution of a new being
—less strength remains to the rest of the system.
The stomach has less power of digestion, from which
come nausea and vomitings ; consequently the food
must be more than ever sparing, and of a pure quality.
Low spirits and hysterical feelings arise from the lim
ited supply of vital power to the brain. The pregnant
woman needs general measures of invigoration ; the full
morning bath, gentle frictions ; the rubbing of the drip
ping sheet. She needs especially the strength and sup
port of the wet bandage over the abdomen, the deriva
tive action of the cold sitz-bath, and the strengthening
effect of the vagina syringe. She may also require, iu
addition, daily injections
to move her bowels. She
must take daily exercise in the open air to a moderate
extent; never so as to induce great fatigue ; she must live
in a cool, pure atmosphere; and sleep, and dress, and eat
according to the rules I have so often repeated. Above
all, let her diet be pure. Let not the delicate tissues of
the unborn child be made up of the flesh of dead ani
mals—
corpses brought round in those hearses of swine
and cattle, the butchers' carts, to find their graves in