2. THRESHOLD OF HONOR.—Think of a man like that; in whom the passions and vices have burned themselves out, putting on the airs of a saint and claiming to have reformed! Aye, reformed, when there is no longer sweetness in the indulgence of lust. Think of such loathsome bestiality, dragging its slimy body across the threshold of honor and nobility and asking a pure woman, with the love-light of heaven in her eyes, to pass her days with him; to accept him as her lord; to be satisfied with the burnt-out, shriveled forces of manhood left; to sacrifice her purity that he may be redeemed, and to respect in a husband what she would despise in the brute.

3. STOP.—If you are, then, on the highway to this state of degradation, stop. If already you have sounded the depths of lost manhood, then turn, and from the fountain of life regain your power, before you perpetrate the terrible crime of marriage, thus wrecking a woman's life and perhaps bringing into the world children who will live only to suffer and curse the day on which they were born and the father who begat them.

4. SEXUAL IMPOTENCY.—Sexual impotency means sexual starvation, and drives many wives to ruin, while a similar lack among wives drives husbands to libertinism. Nothing so enhances the happiness of married couples as this full, life-abounding, sexual vigor in the husband, thoroughly reciprocated by the wife, yet completely controlled by both.

5. TWO CLASSES OF SUFFERERS.—There are two classes of sufferers. First, those who have only practiced self-abuse and are suffering from emissions. Second, those who by overindulgence in marital relations, or by dissipation with women, have ruined their forces.

6. THE REMEDY.—For self-abuse: When the young man has practiced self-abuse for some time, he finds, upon {462} quitting the habit, that he has nightly emissions. He becomes alarmed, reads every sensational advertisement in the papers, and at once comes to the conclusion that he must take something. Drugs are not necessary.

7. STOP THE CAUSE.—The one thing needful, above all others, is to stop the cause. I have found that young men are invariably mistaken as to what is the cause. When asked as to the first cause of their trouble, they invariably say it was self-abuse, etc., but it is not. It is the thought. This precedes the handling, and, like every other cause, must be removed in order to have right results.

8. STOP THE THOUGHT.—But remember, stop the thought! You must not look after every woman with lustful thoughts, nor go courting girls who will allow you to hug, caress and kiss them, thus rousing your passions almost to a climax. Do not keep the company of those whose only conversation is of a lewd and depraved character, but keep the company of those ladies who awaken your higher sentiments and nobler impulses, who appeal to the intellect and rouse your aspiration, in whose presence you would no more feel your passions aroused than in the presence of your own mother.

9. YOU WILL GET WELL.—Remember you will get well. Don't fear. Fear destroys strength and therefore increases the trouble. Many get downhearted, discouraged, despairing—the very worst thing that can happen, doing as much harm, and in many cases more, than their former dissipation. Brooding kills; hope enlivens. Then sing with joy that the savior of knowledge has vanquished the death-dealing ignorance of the past; that the glorious strength of manhood has awakened and cast from you forever the grinning skeleton of vice. Be your better self, proud that your thoughts in the day-time are as pure as you could wish your dreams to be at night.

10. HELPS.—Do not use tobacco or liquor. They inflame the passions and irritate the nervous system; they only gratify base appetites and never rouse the higher feelings. Highly spiced food should be eschewed, not chewed. Meat should be eaten sparingly, and never at the last meal.

11. DON'T EAT TOO MUCH.—If not engaged in hard physical labor, try eating two meals a day. Never neglect the calls of nature, and if possible have a passage from the bowels every night before retiring. When this is not done the feces often drop into the rectum during sleep, producing heat which extends to the sexual organs, causing the lascivious dreams and emission. This will be noticed especially in the morning, when the feces usually distend {463} the rectum and the person nearly always awakes with sexual passions aroused. If necessary, use injections into the rectum of from one to two quarts of water, blood heat, two or three times a week. Be sure to keep clean and see to it that no matter collects under the foreskin. Wash off the organ every night and take a quick, cold hand-bath every morning. Have something to do. Never be idle. Idleness always worships at the shrine of passion.

12. THE WORST TIME OF ALL.—Many are ruined by allowing their thoughts to run riot in the morning. Owing to the passions being roused as stated above, the young man lies half awake and half dozing, rousing his passions and reveling in lascivious thought for hours perhaps, thus completely sapping the fountains of purity, establishing habits of vice that will bind him with iron bands, and doing his physical system more injury than if he had practiced self-abuse, and had the emission in a few minutes. Jump out of bed at once on waking, and never allow the thought to master you.

13. A HAND BATH.—A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant doctor bills.

14. WILL GET WELL.—Feel no more concern about your self. Say to yourself, "I shall and will get well under this treatment," as you certainly will. Pluck is half the battle. Mind acts and reads directly on the sexual organs. Determining to get well gets you well; whilst all fear that you will become worse makes you worse. All worrying over your case as if it were hopeless, all moody and despondent feelings, tear the life right out of these organs whilst hopefulness puts new life into them.



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The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.



1. THE SINS OF THE FATHERS ARE VISITED ON THE CHILDREN.—If persons who contract secret diseases were the only sufferers, there would be less pity and less concern manifested by the public and medical profession.

2. There are many secret diseases which leave an hereditary taint, and innocent children and grandchildren are compelled to suffer as well as those who committed the immoral act.

3. GONORRHOEA (Clap) is liable to leave the parts sensitive and irritable, and the miseries of spermatorrhoea, impotence, chronic rheumatism, stricture and other serious ailments may follow.

4. SYPHILIS (Pox).—Statistics prove that over 30 per cent. of the children born alive perish within the first year. Outside of this frightful mortality, how many children are born, inheriting eruptions of the skin, foul ulcerations, {465} swelling of the bones, weak eyes or blindness, scrofula, idiocy, stunted growth, and finally insanity, all on account of the father's early vices. The weaknesses and afflictions of parents are by natural laws visited upon their children.

5. The mother often takes the disease from her husband, and she becomes an innocent sufferer to the dreaded disease. However, some other name generally is applied to the disease, and with perfect confidence in her husband she suffers pain all her life, ignorant of the true cause. Her children have diseases of the eyes, skin, glands and bones, and the doctor will apply the term scrofula, when the result is nothing more or less than inherited syphilis. Let every man remember, the vengeance to a vital law knows only justice, not mercy, and a single moment of illicit pleasure will bring many curses upon him, and drain out the life of his innocent children, and bring a double burden of disease and sorrow to his wife.

6. If any man who has been once diseased is determined to marry, he should have his constitution tested thoroughly and see that every seed of the malady in the system has been destroyed. He should bathe daily in natural sulphur waters, as, for instance, the hot springs in Arkansas, or the sulphur springs in Florida, or those springs known as specific remedies for syphilic diseases. As long as the eruptions on the skin appear by bathing in sulphur water there is danger, and if the eruptions cease and do not appear, it is very fair evidence that the disease has left the system, yet it is not an infallible test.

7. How many bright and intelligent young men have met their doom and blighted the innocent lives of others, all on account of the secret follies and vices of men.

8. PROTECTION.—Girls, you, who are too poor and too honest to disguise aught in your character, with your sweet soul shining through every act of your lives, beware of the men who smile upon you. Study human nature, and try and select a virtuous companion.

Transcriber's note: there is no 9. in the original.

10. SYPHILITIC POISON INERADICABLE.—Many of our best and ablest physicians assert that syphilitic poison, once infected, there can be no total disinfection during life; some of the virus remains in the system, though it may seem latent. Boards of State Charities in discussing the causes of the existence of whole classes of defectives hold to the opinion given above. The Massachusetts board in its report has these strong words on the subject:

"The worst is that, though years may have passed since its active stage, it permeates the very seed of life and {466} causes strange affections or abnormalities in the offspring, or it tends to lessen their vital force, to disturb or to repress their growth, to lower their standard of mental and bodily vigor, and to render life puny and short.

11. A SERPENT'S TOOTH.—"The direct blood-poisoning, caused by the absorption into the system of the virus (syphilis) is more hideous and terrible in its effect than that of a serpent's tooth. This may kill outright, and there's an end; but that, stingless and painless, slowly and surely permeates and vitiates the whole system of which it becomes part and parcel, like myriads of trichinae, and can never be utterly cast out, even by salivation.

"Woe to the family and to the people in whose veins the poison courses!

"It would seem that nothing could end the curse except utter extermination. That, however, would imply a purpose of eternal vengeance, involving the innocent with the guilty."

This disease compared with small-pox is as an ulcer upon a finger to an ulcer in the vitals. Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does. Its existence in a primary form implies moral turpitude.

12. CASES CITED.—Many cases might be cited. We give but one. A man who had contracted the disease reformed his ways and was apparently cured. He married, and although living a moral life was compelled to witness in his little girl's eye-balls, her gums, and her breath the result of his past sins. No suffering, no expense, no effort would have been too great could he but be assured that his offspring might be freed from these results.

13. PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.—Here is a case where the old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," may be aptly applied. Our desire would be to herald to all young men in stentorian tones the advice, "Avoid as a deadly enemy any approaches or probable pitfalls of the disease. Let prevention be your motto and then you need not look for a cure."

14. HELP PROFFERED.—Realizing the sad fact that many are afflicted with this disease we would put forth our utmost powers to help even these, and hence give on the following pages some of the best methods of cure.

HOW TO CURE GONORRHOEA (Clap).

CAUSES, IMPURE CONNECTIONS, ETC.

SYMPTOMS.—As the disease first commences to manifest itself, the patient notices a slight itching at the point of the the {467} male organ, which is shortly followed by a tingling or smarting sensation, especially on making water. This is on account of the inflammation, which now gradually extends backward, until the whole canal is involved. The orifice of the urethra is now noticed to be swollen and reddened, and on inspection a slight discharge will be found to be present. And if the penis is pressed between the finger and thumb, matter or pus exudes. As the inflammatory stage commences, the formation of pus is increased, which changes from a thin to a thick yellow color, accompanied by a severe scalding on making water. The inflammation increases up to the fifth day, often causing such pain, on urinating, that the patient is tortured severely. When the disease reaches its height, the erections become somewhat painful, when the discharge may be streaked with blood.

HOME TREATMENT.

First, see that the bowels are loose—if not, a cathartic should be given. If the digestive powers are impaired, they should be corrected and the general health looked after. If the system is in a good condition, give internally five drops of gelseminum every two hours. The first thing to be thought of is to pluck the disease in its bud, which is best done by injections. The best of these are: tinct. hydrastis, one drachm; pure water, four ounces; to be used three times a day after urinating. Zinc, sulphate, ten grains; pure water, eight ounces; to be used after urinating every morning and night. Equal parts of red wine and pure water are often used, and are of high repute, as also one grain of permanganate of potash to four ounces of water.

If the above remedies are ineffectual, a competent physician should be consulted.

General Treatment.—One of the best injections for a speedy cure is:

Hydrastis, 1 oz. Water, 5 oz.

Mix and with a small syringe inject into the penis four or five times a day after urinating, until relieved, and diminish the number of injections as the disease disappears. No medicine per mouth need be given, unless the patient is in poor health.

SYPHILIS (Pox).

1. This is the worst of all diseases except cancer—no tissue of the body escapes the ravages of this dreadful {468} disease—bone, muscle, teeth, skin and every part of the body are destroyed by its deforming and corroding influence.

2. SYMPTOMS.—About eight days after the exposure a little redness and then a pimple, which soon becomes an open sore, makes its appearance, on or about the end of the penis in males or on the external or inner parts of the uterus of females. Pimples and sores soon multiply, and after a time little hard lumps appear in the groin, which soon develop into a blue tumor called bubo. Copper colored spots may appear in the face, hair fall out, etc. Canker and ulcerations in the mouth and various parts of the body soon develop.

3. TREATMENT.—Secure the very best physician your means will allow without delay.

4. LOCAL TREATMENT OF BUBOES.—To prevent suppuration, treatment must be instituted as soon as they appear. Compresses, wet in a solution composed of half an ounce of muriate of ammonia, three drachms of the fluid extract of belladonna, and a pint of water, are beneficial, and should be continuously applied. The tumor may be scattered by painting it once a day with tincture of iodine.

5. FOR ERUPTIONS.—The treatment of these should be mainly constitutional. Perfect cleanliness should be observed, and the sulphur, spirit vapor, or alkaline bath freely used. Good diet and the persistent use of alteratives will generally prove successful in removing this complication.

RECIPE FOR SYPHILIS.—

Bin-iodide of mercury, 1 gr. Extract of licorice, 32 gr.

Make into 16 pills. Take one morning and night.

LOTION.—

Bichloride of mercury, 15 gr. Lime water, 1 pt.

Shake well, and wash affected parts night and morning.

FOR ERUPTIONS ON TONGUE.—

Cyanide of silver, 1/2 gr. Powdered iridis, 2 gr.

Divide into 10 parts. To be rubbed on tongue once a day.

FOR ERUPTIONS IN SYPHILIS.—A 5 per cent. ointment of carbolic acid in a good preparation.

BUBO.

TREATMENT.—

Warm poultice of linseed meal, Mercurial plaster, Lead ointment.

GLEET (Chronic Clap).

1. SYMPTOMS.—When gonorrhoea is not cured at the end of twenty-one or twenty-eight days, at which time all {469} discharge should have ceased, we have a condition known as chronic clap, which is nothing more or less than gleet. At this time most of the symptoms have abated, and the principal one needing medical attention is the discharge, which is generally thin, and often only noticed in the morning on arising, when a scab will be noticed, glutinating the lips of the external orifice. Or, on pressing with the thumb and finger from behind, forward, a thin, white discharge can be noticed.

2. HOME TREATMENT.—The diet of patients affected with this disease is all-important, and should have careful attention. The things that should be avoided are highly spiced and stimulating foods and drinks, as all forms of alcohol, or those containing acids. Indulgence in impure thoughts is often sufficient to keep a discharge, on account of the excitement it produces to the sensitive organs, thus inducing erections, which always do harm.

3. GENERAL TREATMENT.—The best injection is:

Nitrate of silver, 1/4 grain. Pure water, 1 oz.

Inject three or four times a day after urinating.

STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.

SYMPTOMS.—The patient experiences difficulty in voiding the urine, several ineffectual efforts being made before it will flow. The stream is diminished in size, of a flattened or spiral form, or divided in two or more parts, and does not flow with the usual force.

TREATMENT.—It is purely a surgical case and a competent surgeon must be consulted.

PHIMOSIS.

1. CAUSE.—Is a morbid condition of the penis, in which the glans penis cannot be uncovered, either on account of a congenital smallness of the orifice of the foreskin, or it may be due to the acute stage of gonorrhoea, or caused by the presence of soft chancre.

2. SYMPTOMS.—It is hardly necessary to give a description of the symptoms occurring in this condition, for it will be easily diagnosed, and its appearances are so indicative that all that is necessary is to study into its cause and treat the disease with reference to that.

TREATMENT.—If caused from acute gonorrhoea, it should be treated first by hot fomentations, to subdue the swelling, when the glans penis can be uncovered. If the result of the formation of chancre under the skin, they should be treated by a surgeon, for it may result in the sloughing off of the end of the penis, unless properly treated.

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Animal Magnetism.

WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT.



1. MAGNETISM EXISTING BETWEEN THE BODIES OF MANKIND.—It is rational to believe that there is a magnetism existing between the bodies of mankind, which may have either a beneficial or a damaging effect upon our health, according to the conditions which are produced, or the nature of the individuals who are brought in contact with each other. As an illustration of this point we might consider that, all nature is governed by the laws of attraction and repulsion, or in other words, by positive and negative forces. These subtle forces or laws in nature which we call attraction or {471} repulsion, are governed by the affinity—or sameness—or the lack of affinity—or sameness—which exists between what may be termed the combination of atoms or molecules which goes to make up organic structure.

2. LAW OF ATTRACTION.—Where this affinity—or sameness—exists between the different things, there is what we term the law of attraction, or what may be termed the disposition to unite together. Where there is no affinity existing between the nature of the different particles of matter, there is what may be termed the law of repulsion, which has a tendency to destroy the harmony which would otherwise take place.

3. MAGNETISM OF THE MIND.—Now, what is true of the magnet and steel, is also true—from the sameness of their nature—of two bodies. And what is true of the body in this sense, is also true of the sameness or magnetism of the mind. Hence, by the laying on of hands, or by the association of the minds of individuals, we reach the same result as when a combination is produced in any department of nature. Where this sameness of affinity exists, there will be a blending of forces, which has a tendency to build up vitality.

4. A PROOF.—As a proof of this position, how often have you found the society of strangers to be so repulsive to your feelings, that you have no disposition to associate. Others seem to bring with them a soothing influence that draws you closer to them. All these involuntary likes and dislikes are but the results of the animal magnetism that we are constantly throwing off from our bodies,—although seemingly imperceptible to our internal senses.—The dog can scent his master, and determine the course which he pursues, no doubt from similar influences.

5. HOME HARMONY.—Many of the infirmities that afflict humanity are largely due to a want of an understanding of its principles, and the right applications of the same. I believe that if this law of magnetism was more fully understood and acted upon, there would be a far greater harmony in the domestic circle; the health of parents and children might often be preserved where now sickness and discord so frequently prevail.

6. THE LAW OF MAGNETISM.—When two bodies are brought into contact with each other, the weak must naturally draw from the strong until both have become equal. And as long as this equality exists there will be perfect harmony between individuals, because of the reciprocation which exists in their nature. {472}

7. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.—But if one should gain the advantage of the other in magnetic attraction, the chances are that through the law of development, or what has been termed the "Survival of the Fittest"—the stronger will rob the weaker until one becomes robust and healthy, while the other grows weaker and weaker day by day. This frequently occurs with children sleeping together, also between husband and wife.

8. SLEEPING WITH INVALIDS.—Healthy, hearty, vigorous persons sleeping with a diseased person is always at a disadvantage. The consumptive patient will draw from the strong, until the consumptive person becomes the strong patient and the strong person will become the consumptive. There are many cases on record to prove this statement. A well person should never sleep with an invalid if he desires to keep his health unimpaired, for the weak will take from the strong, until the strong becomes the weak and the weak the strong. Many a husband has died from a lingering disease which saved his wife from an early grave. He took the disease from his wife because he was the stronger, and she became better and he perished.

9. HUSBAND AND WIFE.—It is not always wise that husband and wife should sleep together, nor that children—whose temperament does not harmonize—should be compelled to sleep in the same bed. By the same law it is wrong for the young to sleep with old persons. Some have slept in the same bed with persons, when in the morning they have gotten up seemingly more tired than when they went to bed. At other times with different persons, they have lain awake two-thirds of the night in pleasant conversation and have gotten up in the morning without scarcely realizing that they had been to sleep at all, yet have felt perfectly rested and refreshed.

10. MAGNETIC HEALING, OR WHAT HAS BEEN KNOWN AS THE LAYING ON OF HANDS.—A nervous prostration is a negative condition beneath the natural, by the laying on of hands a person in a good, healthy condition is capable of communicating to the necessity of the weak. For the negative condition of the patient will as naturally draw from the strong, as the loadstone draws from the magnet, until both become equally charged. And as fevers are a positive condition of the system "beyond the natural," the normal condition of the healer will, by the laying on of the hands, absorb these positive atoms, until the fever of the patient becomes reduced or cured. As a proof of this the magnetic healer often finds himself or herself prostrated after treating the weak; and excited or feverish after treating a feverish patient.

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How to Read Character.

HOW TO TELL DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE NOSE.



1. LARGE NOSES.—Bonaparte chose large-nosed men for his generals, and the opinion prevails that large noses indicate long heads and strong minds. Not that great noses cause great minds, but that the motive or powerful temperament cause both.

2. FLAT NOSES.—Flat noses indicate flatness of mind and character, by indicating a poor, low organic structure.

3. BROAD NOSES.—Broad noses indicate large passageways to the lungs, and this, large lungs and vital organs, and this, great strength of constitution, and hearty animal {474} passions along with selfishness; for broad noses, broad shoulders, broad heads, and large animal organs go together. But when the nose is narrow at the base, the nostrils are small, because the lungs are small and need but small avenues for air; and this indicates a predisposition to consumptive complaints, along with an active brain and nervous system, and a passionate fondness for literary pursuits.

4. SHARP NOSES.—Sharp noses indicate a quick, clear, penetrating, searching, knowing, sagacious mind, and also a scold; indicate warmth of love, hate, generosity, moral sentiment—indeed, positiveness in everything.

5. BLUNT NOSES.—Blunt noses indicate and accompany obtuse intellects and perceptions, sluggish feelings, and a soulless character.

6. ROMAN NOSES.—The Roman nose indicates a martial spirit, love of debate, resistance, and strong passions, while hollow, pug noses indicate a tame, easy, inert, sly character, and straight, finely-formed Grecian noses harmonious characters. Seek their acquaintance.

DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY STATURE.

1. TALL PERSONS.—Tall persons have high heads, and are aspiring, aim high, and seek conspicuousness, while short ones have flat heads, and seek the lower forms of worldly pleasures. Tall persons are rarely mean, though often grasping; but very penurious persons are often broad-built.

2. SMALL PERSONS.—Small persons generally have exquisite mentalities, yet less power—the more precious the article, the smaller the package in which it is done up,—while great men are rarely dwarfs, though great size often co-exists with sluggishness.

DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE WALK.

1. AWKWARD.—Those whose motions are awkward yet easy, possess much efficiency and positiveness of character, yet lack polish; and just in proportion as they become refined in mind will their movements be correspondingly improved. A short and quick step indicates a brisk and active but rather contracted mind, whereas those who take long steps generally have long heads; yet if the step is slow, they will make comparatively little progress, while those whose step is long and quick will accomplish proportionately much, and pass most of their competitors on the highway of life. {475}

2. A DRAGGING STEP.—Those who sluff or drag their heels, drag and drawl in everything; while those who walk with a springing, bouncing step, abound in mental snap and spring. Those whose walk is mincing, affected, and artificial, rarely, if ever, accomplish much; whereas those who walk carelessly, that is, naturally, are just what they appear to be, and put on nothing for outside show.

3. THE DIFFERENT MODES OF WALKING.—In short, every individual has his own peculiar mode of moving, which exactly accords with his mental character; so that, as far as you can see such modes, you can decipher such outlines of character.

THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY LAUGHING.

1. LAUGHTER EXPRESSIVE OF CHARACTER.—Laughter is very expressive of character. Those who laugh very heartily have much cordiality and whole-souledness of character, except that those who laugh heartily at trifles have much feeling, yet little sense. Those whose giggles are rapid but light, have much intensity of feeling, yet lack power; whereas those who combine rapidity with force in laughing, combine them in character.

2. VULGAR LAUGH.—Vulgar persons always laugh vulgarly, and refined persons show refinement in their laugh. Those who ha, ha right out, unreservedly, have no cunning, and are open-hearted in everything; while those who suppress laughter, and try to control their countenances in it, are more or less secretive. Those who laugh with their mouths closed are non-committal; while those who throw it wide open are unguarded and unequivocal in character.

3. SUPPRESSED LAUGHTER.—Those who, suppressing laughter for a while, burst forth volcano-like, have strong characteristics, but are well-governed, yet violent when they give way to their feelings. Then there is the intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative of corresponding mental developments.

DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE MODE OF SHAKING HANDS.

THEIR EXPRESSION OF CHARACTER.—Thus, those who give a tame and loose hand, and shake lightly, have a cold, if not heartless and selfish disposition, rarely sacrificing much for others, are probably conservatives, and lack warmth and {476} soul. But those who grasp firmly, and shake heartily, have a corresponding whole-souledness of character, are hospitable, and will sacrifice business to friends; while those who bow low when they shake hands, add deference to friendship, and are easily led, for good or bad, by friends.



THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE MOUTH AND EYES.

1. DIFFERENT FORMS OF MOUTHS.—Every mouth differs from every other, and indicates a coincident character. Large mouths express a corresponding quantity of mentality, while small ones indicate a lesser amount. A coarsely-formed mouth indicates power, while one finely-formed indicates exquisite susceptibilities. Hence small, delicately formed mouths indicate only common minds, with very fine feelings and much perfection of character.

2. CHARACTERISTICS.—Whenever the muscles about the mouth are distinct, the character is correspondingly positive, and the reverse. Those who open their mouths wide and frequently, thereby evince an open soul, while closed {477} mouths, unless to hide deformed teeth, are proportionately secretive.

3. EYES.—Those who keep their eyes half shut are peek-a-boos and eaves-droppers.

4. EXPRESSIONS OF THE EYE.—The mere expression of the eye conveys precise ideas of the existing and predominant states of the mentality and physiology. As long as the constitution remains unimpaired, the eye is clear and bright, but becomes languid and soulless in proportion as the brain has been enfeebled. Wild, erratic persons have a half-crazed expression of eye, while calmness, benignancy, intelligence, purity, sweetness, love, lasciviousness, anger, and all the other mental affections, express themselves quite as distinctly by the eye as voice, or any other mode.

5. COLOR OF THE EYES.—Some inherit fineness from one parent, and coarseness from the other, while the color of the eye generally corresponds with that of the skin, and expresses character. Light eyes indicate warmth of feeling, and dark eyes power.

6. GARMENTS.—Those, who keep their coats buttoned up, fancy high-necked and closed dresses, etc., are equally non-communicative, but those who like open, free, flowing garments, are equally open-hearted and communicative.

THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE COLOR OF THE HAIR.

1. DIFFERENT COLORS.—Coarseness and fineness of texture in nature indicate coarse and fine-grained feelings and characters, and since black signifies power, and red ardor, therefore coarse black hair and skin signify great power of character of some kind, along with considerable tendency to the sensual; yet fine black hair and skin indicate strength of character, along with purity and goodness.

2. COARSE HAIR.—Coarse black hair and skin, and coarse red hair and whiskers, indicate powerful animal passions, together with corresponding strength of character; while fine or light, or auburn hair indicates quick susceptibilities, together with refinement and good taste.

3. FINE HAIR.—Fine dark or brown hair indicates the combination of exquisite susceptibilities with great strength of character, while auburn hair, with a florid countenance, indicates the highest order of sentiment and intensity of feeling, along with corresponding purity of character, combined with the highest capacities for enjoyment and suffering. {478}

4. CURLY HAIR.—Curly hair or beard indicates a crisp, excitable, and variable disposition, and much diversity of character—now blowing hot, now cold—along with intense love and hate, gushing, glowing emotions, brilliancy, and variety of talent. So look out for ringlets; they betoken April weather—treat them gently, lovingly, and you will have the brightest, clearest sunshine, and the sweetest, balmiest breezes.

5. STRAIGHT HAIR.—Straight, even, smooth, and glossy hair indicate strength, harmony, and evenness of character, and hearty, whole-souled affections, as well as a clear head and superior talents; while straight, stiff, black hair and beard indicate a coarse, strong, rigid, straight-forward character.

6. ABUNDANCE OF HAIR.—Abundance of hair and beard signifies virility and a great amount of character; while a thin beard signifies sterility and a thinly settled upper story, with rooms to let, so that the beard is very significant of character.

7. FIERY RED HAIR indicates a quick and fiery disposition. Persons with such hair generally have intense feelings—love and hate intensely—yet treat them kindly, and you have the warmest friends, but ruffle them, and you raise a hurricane on short notice. This is doubly true of auburn curls. It takes but little kindness, however, to produce a calm and render them as fair as a Summer morning. Red-headed people in general are not given to hold a grudge. They are generally of a very forgiving disposition.

SECRETIVE DISPOSITIONS.

1. A man that naturally wears his hat upon the top or back of the head is frank and outspoken; will easily confide and have many confidential friends, and is less liable to keep a secret. He will never do you any harm.

2. If a man wears his hat well down on the forehead, shading the eyes more or less, will always keep his own counsel. He will not confide a secret, and if criminally inclined will be a very dangerous character.

3. If a lady naturally inclines to high-necked dresses and collars, she will keep her secrets to herself if she has any. In courtship or love she is an uncertainty, as she will not reveal sentiments of her heart. The secretive girl, however, usually makes a good housekeeper and rarely gets mixed into neighborhood difficulties. As a wife she will not be the most affectionate, nor will she trouble her husband with many of her trials or difficulties.

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Dictionary of Medical Terms.

Found in this and other works.

ABDOMEN—The largest cavity of the body, containing the liver, stomach, intestines, etc. ABNORMAL—Unhealthy, unnatural. ABORTION—A premature birth, or miscarriage. ABSCESS—A cavity containing pus. ACETIC—Sour, acid. ACIDITY—Sourness. ACRID—Irritating, biting. ACUTE—Of short duration. ADIPOSE—Fatty. ALBUMEN—An animal substance resembling white of egg. ALIMENTARY CANAL—The entire passage through which food passes; the whole intestines from mouth to anus. ALTERATIVE—Medicines which gradually restore healthy action. AMENORRHOEA—Suppression of the menses. AMORPHOUS—Irregular. ANAEMIA—Bloodlessness. ANAESTHETICS—Medicines depriving of sensation and suffering. ANATOMY—Physical structure. ANODYNE—A remedy used for the relief of pain. ANTE-NATAL—Before birth. ANTEVERSION—Bending forward. ANTIDOTE—A medicine counteracting poison. ANTI-EMETIC—That which will stop vomiting. ANTISEPTIC—That which will prevent putrefaction. ANUS—Circular opening or outlet of the bowels. AORTA—The great artery of the heart. APHTHA—Thrush; infant sore mouth. AQUA—Water. AREOLA—Circle around the nipple. ASTRINGENT—Binding; contracting. AURICLE—A cavity of the heart. AXILLA—The armpit. AZOTE—Nitrogen. BACTERIA—Infusoria; microscopical insects. BICUSPID—A two-pointed tooth. BILE—Secretion from the liver. {480} BRONCHITIS—Inflammation of the bronchial tubes which lead into the lungs. CALCULUS—A stone found in the bladder, gall-ducts and kidneys. CALLOUS—A hard bony substance or growth. CAPILLARIES—Hair-like vessels that convey the blood from the arteries to the veins. CARBONIC ACID—The gas which is expired from the lungs. CARDIAC—Relating to the heart. CATARRH—Flow of mucus. CATHARTIC—An active purgative. CAUSTIC—A corroding or destroying substance. CELLULAR—Composed of cells. CERVIX—Neck. CERVIX UTERI—Neck of the womb. CHRONIC—Of long standing. CLAVICLE—The collar bone. COCCYX—Terminal bone of the spine. CONDIMENT—That which gives relish to food. CONGESTION—Overfullness of blood vessels. CONTUSION—A bruise. CUTICLE—The outer skin. DENTITION—Act of cutting teeth. DIAGNOSIS—Scientific determination of diseases. DIARRHOEA—Looseness of the bowels. DISINFECTANT—That which cleanses or purifies. DIAPHRAGM—Breathing muscle between chest and abdomen. DUODENUM—The first part of the small intestines. DYSPEPSIA—Difficult digestion. DYSURIA—Difficult or painful urination. EMETIC—Medicines which produce vomiting. ENAMEL—Covering of the teeth. ENEMA—An injection by the rectum. ENTERITIS—Inflammation of the intestines. EPIDEMIC—Generally prevailing. EPIDERMIS—Outer skin. EPIGASTRIUM—Region of the pit of the stomach. EPILEPSY—Convulsions. EUSTACHIAN TUBE—A tube leading from the side of the throat to the internal ear. EVACUATION—Discharging by stool. EXCRETION—That which is thrown off. EXPECTORANT—Tending to produce free discharge from the lungs or throat. FALLOPIAN TUBES—Tubes from ovaries to uterus. {481} FAECES—Discharge from the bowels. FOETUS—The child in the womb after the fifth month. FIBULA—The smallest bone of the leg below the knee. FISTULA—An ulcer. FLATULENCE—Gas in the stomach or bowels. FLOODING—Uterine hemorrhage. FLUOR ALBUS—White flow; leucorrhoea; whites. FLUX—Diarrhoea, or other excessive discharge. FOMENTATION—Warm or hot application to the body. FRIABLE—Easily crumbled or broken. FRICTION—Rubbing with the dry hand or dry coarse cloth. FUMIGATE—To smoke a room, or any article needing to be cleansed. FUNCTION—The office or duty of any organ. FUNDAMENT—The anus. FUNGUS—Spongy flesh in wounds; proud flesh. FUSION—To melt by heat. GALL—Bile. GALL-STONES—Hard biliary concretions found in the gall bladder. GANGRENE—The first stage of mortification. GARGLE—A liquid preparation for washing the throat. GASTRIC—Of the stomach. GASTRITIS—Inflammation of the stomach. GELATINOUS—Like jelly. GENITALS—The sexual organs. GENU—The knee. GENUS—Family of plants; a group. GERM—The vital principal, or life spark. GESTATION—Period of growth of child in the womb. GLEET—Chronic gonorrhoea. GLOTTIS—The opening of the windpipe. GONORRHOEA—An infectious discharge from the genital organs. GOUT—Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes. GRAVEL—Crystalline sand-like particles in the urine. GUTTURAL—Relating to the throat. HECTIC—A fever which occurs generally at night. HEMORRHAGE—A discharge of blood. HEMORRHOIDS—Piles; tumors in the anus. HEPATIC—Pertaining to the liver. HEREDITARY—Transmitted from parents. HERNIA—Rupture which permits a part of the bowels to protrude. HYGIENE—Preserving health by diet and other precautions. {482} HYPERAEMIA—Excess of blood in any part. HYSTERITIS—Inflammation of the uterus. IMPREGNATION—The act of producing. INCISION—The cutting with instruments. INCONTINENCE—Not being able to hold the natural secretions. INFLUENZA—A disease affecting the nostrils and throat. INFUSION—The liquor in which plants have been steeped, and their medicinal virtues extracted. INHALATION—Drawing in the breath. INJECTION—Any preparation introduced into the rectum or other cavity by syringe. INSPIRATION—The act of drawing air into the lungs. INSOMNIA—Sleeplessness. INVOLUNTARY—Against the will. INTROVERSION—Turned within. JAUNDICE—A disease caused by the inactivity of the liver or ducts leading from it. JUGULAR—Belonging to the throat. KIDNEYS—Two organs which secrete the urine. LABIA—The lips of the vagina. LARYNGITIS—Inflammation of the throat. LARYNX—The upper part of the throat. LASSITUDE—Weakness; a feeling of stupor. LAXATIVE—Remedy increasing action of the bowels. LEUCORRHOEA—Whites; fluor albis. LIVID—A dark colored spot on the surface. LOIN—Lower part of the back. LOTION—A preparation to wash a sore. LUMBAGO—Rheumatism of the loins. MALARIA—Foul marsh air. MALIGNANT—A disease of a very serious character. MALFORMATION—Irregular, unnatural formation. MASTICATION—The act of chewing. MASTURBATION—Excitement, by the hand, of the genital organs. MATRIX—The womb. MECONIUM—The first passage of babes after birth. MEMBRANE—A thin lining or covering. MENOPAUSE—Change of life. MENSTRUATION—Monthly discharge of blood from the uterus. MIDWIFERY—Art of assisting at childbirth. MUCUS—A fluid secreted or poured out by the mucous membrane, serving to protect it. NARCOTIC—A medicine relieving pain and producing sleep. NEPHRITIS—Inflammation of the kidneys. NEURALGIA—Pain in nerves. {483} NORMAL—In a natural condition. NUTRITIOUS—A substance which feeds the body. OBESITY—Excess of fat or flesh. OBSTETRICS—The science of midwifery. OCULUS—The eye. OESOPHAGUS—The tube leading from the throat to the stomach. OPTIC NERVE—The nerve which enters the back part of the eye. ORGANIC—Having organs. OS—Mouth; used as mouth of womb. OSTALGIA—Pain in the bone. OTITIS—Inflammation of the ear. OVUM—An egg. OXALIC ACID—An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. PALATE—The roof of the mouth. PALLIATIVE—To afford relief only. PALPITATION—Unnatural beating of the heart. PARALYSIS—Loss of motion. PARTURITION—Childbirth. PATHOLOGICAL—Morbid, diseased. PELVIS—The bony cavity at lower part of trunk. PERICARDIUM—Sac containing the heart. PERINAEUM—The floor of the pelvis, or space between and including the anus and vulva. PERITONITIS—Inflammation of lining membrane of bowels. PLACENTA—After-birth. PLEURA—Membrane covering the lungs. PLEURISY—Inflammation of the pleura. PREGNANCY—Being with child. PROGNOSIS—Prediction of termination of a disease. PROLAPSUS—Falling; protrusion. PROLAPSUS UTERI—Falling of the womb. PROSTRATION—Without strength. PRURITIS—A skin trouble causing intense itching. PUBERTY—Full growth. PUBES—External part of the organs of generation covered with hair. PUERPERAL—Belonging to childbirth. PULMONARY—Pertaining to the lungs. PULMONITIS—Inflammation of the lungs. PUS—Unhealthy matter. PUTRID—Rotten, decomposed. PYLORUS—Lower opening of the stomach. RECTUM—The lower portion of the intestines. REGIMEN—Regulated habits and food. {484} RETCHING—An effort to vomit. RETINA—Inner coat of the eye. RETROVERSION—Falling backward. RIGOR—Chilliness, convulsive shuddering. SACRUM—Bone of the pelvis. SALIVA—Fluid of the mouth. SALIVATION—Unnatural flow of saliva. SANATIVE—Health-producing. SCIATIC—Pertaining to the hip. SCROFULA—A constitutional tendency to disease of the glands. SCROTUM—The sac which encloses the testicles. SEDATIVE—Quieting, soothing. SEMEN—Secretion of the testes. SITZ-BATH—Bath in a sitting position. STERILITY—Barrenness. STIMULANT—A medicine calculated to excite an increased and healthy action. STYPTIC—A substance to stop bleeding. SUDORIFIC—Inducing sweat. TAMPAN—A plug to arrest hemorrhage. TONIC—A medicine which increases the strength of the system. TESTICLE—Gland that secretes the semen. THERAPEUTIC—Treatment of disease. TISSUE—The peculiar structure of a part. TONSILS—Glands on each side of the throat. TRACHEA—Windpipe. Triturate—To rub into a powder. TUMOR—A morbid enlargement of a part. ULCERATION—The forming of an ulcer. UMBILICUS—The navel. URETER—Duct leading from kidney to the bladder. URETHRA—Duct leading from the bladder. UTERUS—The womb. VAGINA—The passage from the womb to the vulva. VARICOSE VEINS—Veins dilated with accumulation of dark colored blood. VASCULAR—Relating to the blood vessels. VENA CAVA—The large vein communicating with the heart. VENOUS—Pertaining to the veins. VENTRICLE—One of the lower chambers of the heart. VIABLE—Capable of life. VULVA—Outer lips of the vagina. WOMB—That organ of the woman which conceives and nourishes the offspring. ZYMOTIC—Caused by fermentation.

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Alphabetical Index.

A broken heart, Page. 159-161 Abortion, or miscarriage, 253, 254 Adaptation, conjugal, affection, etc, 181-185 Advantages of wedlock, 135-137 Advice to the married and unmarried, 181-188 Advice to the newly married couples, 201-205 A good name, 18-20 Amenorrhoea, 355 Animal magnetism, 470 A perfect human figure, how to determine, 99 A plea for the girls, 380-389 Apoplexy, how to cure, 365 Associates, influence of, 11

Bad company, result of, 11 Bad breath and quinsy, how to cure, 365 Babies, how to keep well, 330-331 Bathing, practical rules for, 370, 371 Baths, all the different kinds of, 372, 373 Beauty, a dangerous gift, 27 Beauty, 91-94 Beauty, sensible helps to, 95, 96 Beautiful children, how to have, 288-290 Beginning of life, 5 Beware of idleness, 436 Beware of advertising quacks, 457 Biliousness, 357 Blackheads and flesh worms, 112 Bleeding, to check, 356 Bleeding, from the nose, 364 Boils, 364 Boys, save them, 390-394 Bruises or cuts, 360 Bunions, 364 Burns and sores, 355

Care of the hair, 107-110 Care of the new born infants, 315 Cases cited, 314 Cause of family troubles, 217, 218 Celebrated prescriptions and how to use them, 354-364 Celibacy, disadvantages of, 138 Character, exhibits itself, 15 Character, how to read, 473-478 Child in the womb, education of, 292-294 Child bearing without pain, 304-310 Chilblains, sprains, etc, 359 Children, too many, 229-231 Chapped hands, 355 Chicken pox, 346 Choosing a partner, sensible hints in, 165-169 Chastity and purity of character, 400-403 Cigarette smoking, the destructive effects of, 449-450 Cooking for the sick, 375-379 Confinement, special safeguards in, 299-301 Correspondence, 36 Conversation, 79-83 Conversation, home lessons, 80-83 Corset, benefit and injury, 101-103 Costiveness, 362 Courtship and marriage, hints and helps, 144-152 Conjugal affections and fatal errors, 181-185 Conception, prevention of, 240-245 Colic, 338 Constipation, how to cure, 339 Coughs and colds, 360 Croup, spasmodic and true, 342 Cramps and colic, remedies for, 356

Dangerous vices, 451-456 Deafness, cure for, 362 Dictionary of medical terms, 479-484 Diarrhoea, 363 Diphtheria, home treatment of, 346 Disinfectant, 360 Diseases of women, 348-350 Disposition, an easy going, ??? Diseases of infants and children, home treatment for, 338-347 Diseases, transmission of, 263-265 Diseases of pregnancy, 274-281 Doses, of disease and death, 441-444 Dress, 88-90 Dress, diet, and exercise during pregnancy, 304-310 Duration of pregnancy, 295 Dyspepsia, cure of, 360

Education of child in the womb, 292-294 Eruption of the skin, 111, 112 Etiquette, rules on, 49-54 Etiquette of calls, 56 Etiquette in your speech, 57 Etiquette of dress and habit, 58 Etiquette on the street, 59 Etiquette between sexes, 60 Expectant mother cautioned 284 Exciting the passions in children, 404, 405 Eye wash, 355

Falling of the womb, 350 Family troubles, cause of, 217 Family, government, 76-78 Facial eruptions, how to cure, 111-112 Feeding a baby on cow's milk, 329 Felons, how to treat, 364 Female character, influence of, 30 {486} First love, desertion, etc., 185 Films and cataracts of the eyes, 355 Flirting and its dangers, 190, 191 Fleshworms, etc., 112 Form and deformity, 98-103 Foreign bodies in the eye, to remove, 358 Former customs among men, 162-163 Formation of life, mystery of, 238, 239 Food, digestibility of, 374 Friends, procure none in haste, 12

Generative organs—Male and female, 234-237 Good behavior, at all times and places, 49 Good character, influence of, 73, 74 Gout, cure for, 362 Guard modesty, 210

Habit, 17 Hair, the care of, 107-110 Headache, sick, cure for, 355, 360 Health, a duty, 7 Heartburn, 357 Heredity and transmission of diseases, 263-265 Hints and helps on good behavior, 49 Hints in choosing a partner, 165-169 Hives, cure for, 354 Home power, 23-25 Honeymoon, how to perpetuate, 209 Home lessons in nursing sick children, 325-328 Home treatment of the secret habit, 455-456 Hot water, how to use in all diseases, 368-369 How to keep the bloom and grace of youth, 97 How to be a good wife, 210-212 How to be a good husband, 212-215 How to feed infants, 329 How to keep a baby well, 330-335 How to apply and use hot water in all diseases, 368, 369 How to mesmerize, ??? How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles, ??? How to cook for the sick, 375-379 Human magnetism, effects of, ??? Human figure, a perfect, 99-100 Hygienic laws, 406-408

Ignorance, coarseness, etc., 24 Illustrations, ??? Immorality, disease and death, 416-419 Impotence and sterility, 248-251 Improvement of offspring, 222-227 Impregnation, 269 Impregnation, artificial, 270 Infant teething, 336, 337 Infants, feeding, 319 Infants, care of, 315-320 Influence of good character, 73-74 Inhumanities of parents, 396-399 Intoxication, 355 Infants, care of during hot weather, 332-335 Infantile convulsions, 319, 320 Influence of associates, 11 Influence of female character, 30 Indigestion, symptoms of, 328 Inward graces, 28

Jealousy, its cause and cure, 219-221

Kidneys, the object lessons, 447 Knowledge is safety, 3

Labor, time of expected, 295-298 Labor, signs and symptoms of, 297, 298 Leucorrhoea, 349 Lessons of caution to young women, 380 Letters, how to write, 34-47 Letters, social forms of, 39-43 Life, beginning of, 5 Liver and kidneys of a drunkard, 446, 447 Lock and key, 4 Longevity, 367 Love, 114-120 Love letters, forms of, 44-47 Love power, the peculiarities of, 118 Love, connubial, 122 Love and common sense, 123, 124 Love spats, 154-157 Lost manhood restored, 459, 460 Lungs and heart of a cigarette smoker, 448, 449

Maidens, a word to, 192 Male and female generative organs explained, 234-237 Manhood wrecked and rescued, 461-463 Man, a careless being, 32 Mashed nails, 358 Men, prostitution of, 427-429 Maternity, preparation for, 266, 267 Marriage, history of, 132-134 Marriage securities, 174-177 Matrimonial pointers, 170-173 Menstruation, 351-353 Mother's influence, 21 Morning sickness, 282 Mumps and measles, 345 Murder of the innocents, 255-257 {487} Nervous, disability, remedy for, 356 Nervous headache, 356 Neuralgia, 356, 360 Newly married couples, advice to, 201-205 New revelation for women, 246, 247 Nocturnal emissions, 457 Nursing, pains and ills of, 321-324 Nursing sick children, 325-328

Object lessons of the effects of alcohol and cigarette smoking, 445-450 Offspring, improvement of, 222-227 Old maids, 140-143 Our secret sins, 409-413 Ovum, ripe from the ovary, 238

Pains and ills in nursing, 321-324 Person, care of, 84 Personal appearance, 86 Personal purity, 31, 32 Physical and moral degeneracy, 414, 415 Piles, cure of, 362 Pimples, how to cure, 111 Plain words to parents, 312 Poisonous literature and bad pictures, 421, 422 Poisons, remedies for, 359 Popping the question, 194-198 Politeness, 70-72 Prescriptions, celebrated, 354-364 Prevention of conception, 240-245 Preparation for maternity, 266, 267 Pregnancy, signs and symptoms of, 270-273 Pregnancy, diseases of, 274-281 Pregnancy, relation of husband and wife during, 283 Prisons overflowing, 19 Private talk to young men, 437-439 Private word to the expectant mother, 284 Producing boys or girls at will, 252 Prostitution, cause and cure, 427-429 Puberty, virility and hygienic laws, 406-408

Quacks, 453 Quinsy, 365

Relation of husband and wife during pregnancy, 283 Road to shame, the, 430-432 Ringworm, 362 Rose rash, 363

Safeguards during confinement, 299-301 Safe hints, 170-173 Save the boys, 390-394 Save the girls, 380-389 Scriptural declaration, 195 Scarlet fever, 363 Scarlet fever and measles, 328 Secret sins, symptoms of, 451-455 Secret diseases, curse and consequence, 464-465 Self control, 12 Sensible hints in choosing a partner, 165-169 Sensible rules for the nurse, 366 Sexual propriety, etc., 206-208 Shall pregnant women work, 285 Shame, the road to, 430-432 Signs and symptoms of labor, 297, 298 Signs and symptoms of pregnancy, 270-273 Sin of ignorance, 453 Slave of injurious drugs, 441-444 Small families and the improvement of the race, 232-233 Social duties, 65-69 Solemn lessons for parents, 312-314 Social evil, remedies for, 440 Sprained ankle or wrist, 359 Stomach, the object lessons, 445 Startling sins, 423-426 Strong drink, 16 Sterilized milk, 334 Superfluous hair, 360 Sweating feet, cure for, 354

Table manners, practical rules on, 63, 64 The beginning of life, 5 The curse of manhood, 433-436 The last tie, 22 The ideal man, 14 The mother's influence, 21-22 The toilet, 84-87 The history and mystery of the corset, 101-103 The inhumanities of parents, 396 The road to shame, 430, 432 Throat trouble, 354 Tight lacing, effects of, 104, 105 Time of expected labor, how to calculate, 295 Toilet, the, 84-87 Too many children, 229-231 To young women, 26-28 Turpentine, applications, 357

Unwelcome child, 258-262

Value of reputation, 9 Virility, 406 Vice or virtue, 6 Vomiting, 363

Waists, natural and unnatural, 105 Warts and wens, 364 Water as medicine, 368 Wedlock, advantages of, 135-137 Wedding, 199, 200 What women love in men, 126-128 What men love in women, 129-131 When and whom to marry, 144-152 Where did the baby come from, 303 Whooping cough, 344 Women, new revelations for, 246, 247 Women who make the best wives, 178-180 Words for young mothers, 286, 287 Worms, round and pin, 341

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Notes

[1] Above syringe will be sent by publishers, postpaid, for $1.20. The cleanser alone for 60c.

[2] This is the title of a pamphlet written by Henry C. Wright. We have taken some extracts from it.

[3] Some of these valuable suggestions are taken from "Parturition Without Pain," by Dr. M. L. Holbrook.

[4] This quotation is an appeal to mothers by Mrs. P. B. Saur, M.D.

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Corrections made to printed original.

p. 6. s. 5. "victims of their own sin.": 'or' (for 'of') in original.

p. 16. s. 9. "It is necessary to one's personal happiness,": 'neccessary' in original.

p. 50. s. 10. "not too rigid": 'rigd' in original.

p. 50. s. 17. "Should you chance": 'yon' in original. The same error in "unless you are engaged", p. 53. s. 15.

p. 129. s. 13. "the love and admiration of young ladies": 'admiraton' in original.

p. 135. "a glow of satisfaction and delight": 'satsfaction' in original.

p. 165. s. 2. "do not bungle courtship": 'no' (for 'not') in original.

p. 177. "rather ... to a man without money than to money without a man": garbled to 'with a man' in original.

p. 237. s. 7. "Fallopian Tubes.": 'Fallopion' in original.

p. 239. s. 5. "sufficient in amount to impregnate": 'amouut' in original.

p. 250. s. 13. "Take plenty of out-door exercise": 'excercise' in original.

p. 285. s. 1. "to be a dwarfed and puny race": 'to a be' in original.

p. 300. s. 10. "no tying is necessary": 'no time is neeessary' in original.

p. 306. s. 18. "The above cuts are given on page 105": incorrectly '113' in original.

p. 321. s. 1. "were to adopt": 'where' (for 'were') in original.

p. 376. s. 9. "inflammation of lungs": 'of of' (over line-break) in original.

p. 425. s. 9. "moral manhood and womanhood": 'womahood' in original.

p. 428. s. 10. "Proof of this is especially furnished": 'if' (for 'is') in original.

p. 440. s. 2. "sooner or later contracting disease": 'dis-disease' (over line-break) in original.

p. 442. s. 5. "chloral, bromide and hyoscymus": 'hyoseamus' in original, 'hyoscymus' is his spelling on p. 363 (it should really be 'hyoscyamus').

p. 469. "STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.": 'URETHA' in original.

p. 472. s. 7. "one becomes robust and healthy": 'heatlhy' in original.

The following index entries in the original do not seem to match anything in the text:

Disposition, an easy going, 491 How to mesmerize, 468 How the mind speaks through the nerves and muscles, 494, 495 Human magnetism, effects of, 503-506 Illustrations, 1

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