"Umbilical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not the practice with the Mafulu for mothers to wear the umbilical cords of any of their children, though apparently the ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... ill effects can undoubtedly be attributed to it;" and he alludes to the observation of Mr. Bryant, as published in his book on the "Surgical Diseases of Children": "In fifty consecutive cases of congenital phimosis, thirty-one had hernia, five had double inguinal hernia, and many had umbilical hernia besides. In no one was the hernia congenital, its earliest occurrence being at three weeks. Circumcision was performed in these cases, and ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... blood of the foetus to and from the Placenta, absorbing it through the thin walls which separate it from the mother's blood. Only through her blood can the mother influence the child, since the Umbilical Cord contains no nerves. The Umbilical Cord, attached to the body of the child at the navel, is cut at birth, and with the Placenta is expelled from the womb soon after the child has been born. Together with the Placenta it forms a shapeless mass, familiarly known as the "afterbirth," ...
— Sex - Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English • Henry Stanton
... the Parsees of Mount Albors in the Caucasus.[85-6] Each nation called their sacred mountain "the navel of the earth;" for not only was it the supposed centre of the habitable world, but through it, as the foetus through the umbilical cord, the earth drew her increase. Beyond all other spots were they accounted fertile, scenes of joyous plaisance, of repose, and eternal youth; there rippled the waters of health, there blossomed the tree of life; they were fit trysting spots ...
— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton
... The umbilical cord should be severed from the afterbirth about four inches from the puppy, and this will dry up and fall away in the course of ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... suit them for the climate (which is the final cause;) so that betwixt them both, all the tenements of their souls, from top to bottom, may be nothing else, for aught the soundest philosophy can shew to the contrary, but one fine transparent body of clear glass (bating the umbilical knot)—so that, till the inhabitants grow old and tolerably wrinkled, whereby the rays of light, in passing through them, become so monstrously refracted,—or return reflected from their surfaces in such transverse lines to the eye, that a man cannot be seen ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne |
