From the above diet it would therefore seem that the work of Mellanbv McCarrison Plimmer and Marshall in Great Britain and Dickinson in America on the effects of food on reproduction and health were empirically anticipated by the patriarchs ; and that the maxim "the vitamins are to the endocrines what the endocrines are to the economy " was instinctively realized by time Jewish people. [...] The second reason for the multiplication of the people of Israel is to be found in the Book of Leviticus in which those rules for coitus are laid down which are of such extreme interest in view of the recent work of Wilfred Shaw Novak and others on ovulation ; for it has been proved that ovulation does not occur until the 18th to the 17th day of the menstrual cycle counting the cycle as beginn [...] Let the stook be furnished and covered with many cloths and clouts at the back and other parts that the labouring woman receive no hurt of the infant anywhere strongly kicking and striving because of the pains stirrings and motions of the mother. [...] The skill of the physician shall lift up his head and in the sight of great men he shall be praised." It is not impossible however that the son of Sirach inferred the meddlesome midwife when lie wrote the bathos "He that sinneth in the sight of his Maker shall fall into the hands of the physician." But all the same worthy or unworthy a physician was entitled to his expenses or fees ! vide [...] In the days of the Patriarchs a woman did not exist until she was married and even then we have the instance of the wife of Joachim carrying the load of inferiority winch was hers as a girl though she was innocent of the charge of infidelity made against her.
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