" Freud remarks that girls who retain the childish character of
their love for their parents to adult age are apt to make cold wives and
to be sexually anaesthetic.
[170] Esbach (in his _These de Paris_, published in 1876) showed that even
the finger nails are affected in pregnancy and become measurably thinner.
[171] C.H. Stratz, _Die Schoenheit des Weiblichen Koerpers_, Chapter VI.
[172] Iron appears to be liberated in the maternal organism during
pregnancy, and Wychgel has shown (_Zeitschrift fuer Geburtshuelfe und
Gynaekologie_, bd. xlvii, Heft II) that the pigment of pregnant women
contains iron, and that the amount of iron in the urine is increased.
[173] Vinay, _Maladies de la Grossesse_, Chapter VIII; K. Hennig,
"Exploratio Externa," _Comptes-rendus du XIIe. Congres International de
Medecine_, vol. vi, Section XIII, pp. 144-166. A bibliography of the
literature concerning the physiology of pregnancy, extending to ten pages,
is appended by Pinard to his article "Grossesse," _Dictionnaire
Encyclopedique des Sciences Medicales_.
[174] Stratz, op. cit., Chapter XII.
[175] W.S.A. Griffith, "The Diagnosis of Pregnancy," _British Medical
Journal_, April 11, 1903.
[176] J. Mackenzie and H.
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