Pain Is Stimulus Of The Maternal Instinct
Received Monday, 7 p.m. JiONPpN, Jfijie 14. ; In a letter to the British Medical Jq.auiai, Df, 4. Hadfield, Lecturer in P&ycfiology .^fid H-ygiene tfie Universijy, .su^fgts/ that.paia js* .tfie stimMus .of -tfie . m,a.ternai j.jistinct and that Raiji jn , childhirth may bave ja pos?ifile hiological yafue. s Hq cbwte? ^ugvene MarAis, the Bpiith Afric^p paturalist, -wfio maintjaipe.d that p.ain jp the key .unlo.cks the to mother loye jn all aninjal? aRd tfiat wjbire g&in is negfigifile jpye a]nd £^,re afe feeble. Marais carriefi , o.ut experiments which indieated j that when „ femajp animals were given anaesthetics during liahour they refused to accept or c^re for their yo.ung.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1948, Page 5
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