Abortion, 91 after fifth month, 102 agents of, 117 American law on, 119 causes of, 92 civil law on, 121 Council of Lerida on, 115 Council of Worms on, 115 decretal of Gregory on, 115 direct, 109 excommunication for, 116, 117 Gregory XIV on, 116 habitual, 98 Holy Office decrees on, 118 homicide in, 110 incomplete, 101 inevitable, 101 irregularity and, 117 morality of, 109-114 morphine in, 101 paternal causes of, 95 Pius IX on, 116 precautions against, 105, 106 prognosis after, 100 sepsis after, 105 Sixtus V on, 115 statistics of, 97, 98 symptoms of, 99 syphilis and, 107 tampon, use of, 103 therapeutic, 107, 109 threatened, 99 treatment of, 102 violence and, 94
Abruptio placentae, 144 causes of, 144 effects of, 144
Animation, 33, 39 Aristotle on, 39 biologists on, 49 Conklin on, 73 Fienus on, 35 Greek fathers on, 33 Greek philosophers on, 33 St. Alphonsus on, 39 St. Anselm on, 35 St. Augustine on, 34 St. Gregory of Nyssa on, 35 St. Thomas on, 35 Zacchias on, 36
Cancers in pregnancy, 149 morality of operation, 150
Cell, 40 bridges, 60 differentiation, 67, 68 division, 41, 42 heredity, 45 life, 48 motion, 70 reduction, 45 union, 65, 66
Cesarean delivery, 132 amputation of the uterus after, 138 indications for, 132 morality of, 136, 137 repeated sections, 140 sterilizations and, 139, 140, 141
Eclampsia parturientium, 161 abortion in, 165 expectant treatment of, 166 forced delivery in, 165 mortality, 163, 168 Lichtenstein's method in, 166 precautions against, 164 symptoms of, 161 veratrum viride in, 167
Ectopic gestation, 123 decrees of the Holy Office on, 128, 129 diagnosis of, 126, 127 morality of operations, 129, 130
Fetus, 33 and the dead mother, 87 at term, 54 months, 53, 54, 55 stages, 53
Gonorrhoea in marriage, 211 abortion and, 224 blindness and, 226 conservative surgery for, 217 effects, 212, 213, 215, 216, 225, 226 operations for, 216 professional secret and, 212 tests of cure, 211 treatment by heat, 228
Heart diseases in pregnancy, 169 Mayo clinic on, 173
Homicide, 13 accidental, 19 arguments against, 14, 15, 16, 17 bibliography of, 22 direct and indirect, 13 self-defence and, 17, 18, 19
Hysteria, imitative, 183 major and minor, 184 marriage and, 185 in pregnancy, 181, 182, 183