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Celibacy not chastity, 57 results of, 58
Change of life, regimen and perils of, 389
Changes, the monthly, precautions during, 45 precautions in the intervals of, 46 when delayed, 48 painful, 49 worked by puberty, 30
Child, the, 271 attention to, at birth, 231 can it cry before birth?, 198 education, of before birth, 191
Child-bearing, excessive, 115
Childbed, diseases of, 361 mortality of, 237
Childbirth, imprudence after, 240 preparations for, 219 to preserve form after, 242
Children, bathing of, 303 bed for, 297 clothing of, 300 decreased number of, 73 diet for, 288 new-born, weight and length of, 238 three and more at a birth, 164
Children's diseases, home management of, 325
Chlorosis, 36
Choice of a husband, 69
City life, effect of, on puberty, 29, 47
Cleanliness, curative influence of, 378 importance of, to wives, 131
Climate, effect of, on puberty, 27
Clothing at puberty, 43 at confinement, 227 during pregnancy, 209 of new-born infants, 222 of young children, 300
Cold, effect of, on infants, 300
Color of infant, influence of mind of mother on, 182
Completion of puberty, 32
Complexion, 136 inheritance of, 125
Conception, is it possible during pregnancy?, 192 nature of, 125 signs of, 128
Confinement, bed for, 226 day of, how to calculate, 206 dress for, 227 hints for attendants at, 229 imprudence after, 240 preparations for, 219
Constipation of pregnancy, 358
Constitution, effect of the, on puberty, 21 on change of life, 398
Consumption, 41, 71, 94, 148, 151
Continence demanded from husbands, 121
Cough of pregnancy, 359
Count, how to make the, 206
Country life, effect of, on puberty, 29
Courtship, 65
Cousins, shall they marry?, 69
Crime of abortion, 122
Croup, home treatment of, 325
Culture of the skin, 306
Dangers of puberty, 35
Daughters, influenced by fathers, 144
Deformities, are they hereditary?, 139
Degeneracy, cause of, 349 of the human race, a query, 348
Diet for infants, 274, 288 children, 292 the pregnant, 208
Diarrhoea during pregnancy, 357 of infants, 339
Directions for mothers who cannot nurse their own children, 267
Dignity and propriety of the sexual instinct, 96
Disease, communication of, 80
Diseases, hereditary, 148 of children, home management of, 325 of wives and mothers, 352
Distinction of the sexes, 18
Divorce, unnatural and improper, 63
Dress, attention to, during pregnancy, 209 for confinement, 227
Dressing of the new-born child, 231
Drying up of the milk, 258, 279
Duration of labor, 239
Dyspepsia of children, 342
Ear, the hygiene of, in childhood, 323
Education, influence of, over hereditary qualities, 147 of the child in the womb, 191 special senses in children, 318
Emotion, influence of, on unborn child, 185
Emotions, stimulation of, effects of, on puberty, 29
Engagement, the, 85
Engagements, long, 86
Epilepsy, a cause of, 255
Eruptions of childhood, how to prevent, 106
Eternity of love, 60
Exercise at puberty, 42 during pregnancy, 210 of children, 309
Excessive child-bearing, 115
Eyes, the education of, in childhood, 319
Falling of the womb, 368
False labor pains, 225
Fathers, influence of, on daughters, 144
Feeding of infants, manner of, 291
Fertility, hereditary, 138 laws of, 109
First application of child to breasts, 232 cares to the child newly born, 231 mother after childbirth, 230 labors, 51 seven years of life, 314
Fits of children, home treatment of, 330
Flat nipples, how to remedy, 245
Food, during pregnancy, 207 of infants and children, 288 bill of fare for, 292
Foreigners, should native women marry, 73
Form, to preserve after confinement, 242
Frigidity, 109
Galen, anecdote of, 127
Games and plays, advantages of, 314
Gardner, Lord, the case of, 202
Garters, danger of, during pregnancy, 355
Gathered breasts, 382
Goftr, story of, 166
Government of children, hints on, 344
Green sickness, 36
Growth of children, 287
Habits, dangers and advantages of, 316
Hair, its significance, 84 transmission of, 137
Hardening of infants, dangerous theories on the, 303
Hearing, the training of, in children, 323
Head colds of children, home treatment of, 329
Health, care of, during pregnancy, 207 effect of pregnancy on, 216 in marriage, 351
Hereditary diseases, 148 qualities influenced by education, 147
Hermaphrodite, a true, 20
Hindrances to nursing, 245
Hints for attendants at confinement, 229
Home government, hints on, 344 management of some common children's diseases, 325 treatment of female ailments, 377
Husband, age of, 75 and wife, during pregnancy, 216 shall they occupy same room and bed, 93 character of, 79 how to choose, 69 retain the affections of, 130
Husbands, plurality of, 64
Hygiene of puberty, 41 the monthly periods, 45 pregnancy, 207 of infancy, 271 of the special senses, 318
Hygienic habits, importance of teaching children, 316 treatment of inward weakness, 377
Hysterics, 38
Imagination of mother, influence of, on unborn child, 186
Imprudence after childbirth, 240
Indigestion of childhood, 342
Indulgence and restraint of sexual desire, 99
Infancy, care of, 271 deaths in, 272
Infant, first clothing of, 222 washing of, 231 how to carry, 309 lift, 310 teach to walk, 313
Infants' food, 288
Inheritance, 132 how to avoid evil tendencies of, 151 how to have beautiful children, 140 influence of education over, 147 each parent over, 144 of beauty, 135 of diseases, 148 of longevity, 138 of mutilations, 149 of personal qualities, 139 of physical " , 136 of talent and genius, 141 of temperament, 137 late manifestations of, 151 the effects of, 151
Injections, 379
Injurious exercises for infants, 311
Intemperance, of several kinds, 117
Intermarriage of relatives, 69
Inward weakness, 368
Irregularities, causes of, 46
Irrigations, 381
Knowledge, safety in, 17
Labor, cause of, 225 duration of, 239 dress during, 227 false and true, 225 how to calculate time of, 170 how to have, without pain, 236 mortality of, 237 signs of approaching, 223 symptoms of actual, 224
Late manifestations of the effects of inheritance, 151
Late marriages, offspring of, 388
Length of pregnancy, 200
Liebig's soup for infants, 289
Lifting an infant, manner of, 310
Light, necessity of, for children, 308
Limitation of offspring, 115
Long engagements, 86
Longevity, hereditary, 138
Longings in pregnancy, 186
Love, at first sight, 67 differs from lust, 50 is a necessity, 57 is eternal, 60 its power on humanity, 52 what is it?, 54
Looseness of bowels in children, 339 during pregnancy, 357
Lying-in room, the management of, 226
Maiden, the, 23
Manner of feeding infants, 291
Mania, puerperal, 362
Marital relations, times to suspend, 103 when painful, 92, 104
Marriage, age for, 50 health in, 351 time of month for, 87 year for, 87
Marriages, second, 62
Maternity, duties and privileges of, 243 perils of, 352
Matrimony, necessity of, for happiness, 58
Matron, the happy, 243
Memory, visual, cultivation of, in childhood, 320
Men, as wet-nurses, 260
Menstruation explained, 24
Mental impressions, effect of, on hysterics, 39 on unborn children, 180 troubles of girlhood, 47
Milk, mother's, effect of anger on, 253 effect of retention in the breasts, 249 influence of diet on, 249 pregnancy on, 250 over-abundance of, 258 scantiness of, 259 quantity required by infant, 256 when poisonous, 252 value as food, 42
Milk-leg, causes and treatment of, 367
Mind, changes in, at puberty, 31 during pregnancy, 175, 214 influence of over conception, 126 nursing child, 251 unborn child, 182
Miscarriage, 176 causes and dangers of, 178 frequency of, 176 influence of age of mother on, 177 prevention of, 179 symptoms of, 180
Mixture of races by marriage, 71
Month, right time of the, to marry, 87
Monthly changes, precautions in the intervals of, 46 precautions during, 45 when delayed, 48 when painful, 49
Moon, connection of monthly periods with, 32
Morning sickness of pregnancy, 169, 353
Mortality of childbed, 237 comparative, of the two sexes in early life, 154
Mortality of infants, causes of, 271 relative to married life, 57
Mother, the, 243 diseases of, 361 duties of, towards daughters at puberty, 44 influence of, over sons, 144 position in nursing, 225 who is unable to nurse her child, 267
Mothers' marks, 180
Music, influence of, 99
Mutilations, are they inheritable?, 149
Native women, shall they marry foreigners?, 73
Near-sightedness, how to prevent, 322
Neck, form of, 83 its significance, 84
New-born babe, first cares for, 231 weight and length of, 238
Night dress of children, 301 covering of children, 298 the wedding, 91
Nipples, how to harden, 220
Nose-bleed in childhood, 333
Nubility, the age of, 50
Nursing, 244 care of health during, 263 diseases of, 382 hindrances to, 245 position during, 225 prolonged, 262 rules for, 248 when improper, 245
Nursing mother, qualities of good, 257
Offspring, the limitation of, 115 influenced by the mind, 126
Over-nursing, signs of, 265
Overlaying of children, deaths from, 273
Over-production, evils of, 115 remedies for, 121
Ovulation, the meaning of, 24
Painful monthly changes, causes and treatment, 49
Pains of labor, true and false, 225
Painless labors, how to have, 236
Parr, Thomas, the long life of, 139
Pendulous abdomen after confinement, how to escape, 242
Perils of maternity, 352
Persons of both sexes, and of neither sex, 20
Perspiration, fetid, 131
Phases, the three, of woman's life, 22
Piles, during pregnancy, 356
Plays, the, of children, advantages of, 314
Plural births, 163
Plurality of wives or husbands, 64
Position of child while eating, 294 of child while sleeping, 299
Position of mother while nursing, 255
Precautions necessary at the time of the monthly changes, 45
Precocity, remarkable instances of, 25
Pregnancy, 167 bathing during, 212 care of health during, 207 causes of protracted, 205 can a woman again become pregnant during, 192 clothing during, 209 diseases of, 352 double, 192 effect of, on the health, 216 exercise during, 210 food during, 208 influence of, on the milk of nursing mother, 250 length of, 200 relation of husband and wife during, 216 signs and symptoms of, 168 sleep during, 213 ventilation of sleeping-room during, 212
Premature marriages, 50
Preparations for confinement, 219
Prolific wives, 115
Puerperal mania, 362
Qualities transmitted by parents, 132
Quantity of milk required by infant, 256
Quickening, as a sign of pregnancy, 170 flatulence mistaken for, 172 how caused, 171 time of, 171
Race, the human, is it degenerating?, 348
Races, mixture of, 71
Relation of husband and wife during pregnancy, 216 nursing, 264
Relative age of man and wife, 76 proportion of men and women living, 153
Religion, mistaken notions of, 57
Rest, after delivery, 241 during pregnancy, 211
Re-vaccination, 286
Right time of the month to marry, 87 time of the year to marry, 87
Schooling, the, of the first seven years of life, 316
Scrofulous diseases, a cause of, 309
Second marriages, 62
Secret bad habits, 39
Self-deceptions regarding pregnancy, 172
Senses, training of the special, in childhood, 318
Sex of child, how to predict before birth, 198
Sexes, distinction of, 18 laws which determine the relative numbers of the, 155 persons of both and of neither, 20 production of, at will, 157
Sexual desire, indulgence and restraint of, 99 moderation in, 100 instinct, dignity and propriety of, 96 false notions about, 97 desire, influence of on offspring, 98
Sexuality, what it implies, 18
Sickness, morning, during pregnancy, 353 during labor, 225
Signs of approaching labor, 223 puberty, 30 conception, 128 over-nursing, 265 pregnancy, 168
Sight, the training of, in childhood, 319
Single life, the, 386 in its relation to sanity and mortality, 57
Skin, changes in, during pregnancy, 174 culture, of, in infancy, 306
Sleep, amount required in early life, 295 at puberty, 42 during pregnancy, 213 position in, 299
Sleeplessness during pregnancy, 360
Small pox, death rate from, 283 the only preventive against, 284
Son or daughter?, 198
Sore nipples, 246
Soup, Liebig's, 289
Sphere of woman, 21
Spinal disease, 36
Spring-time, 101
Spurious labor pains, 225
Stages of labor, 123
Starvation of girls, 41
Sterility, 106 how to remedy, 113
Still-births, 240
Stilling Jung, anecdote of, 67
Stimulation of the emotions, dangers of, at puberty, 29
St. Pierre, anecdote of, 78
Sully Raymond, anecdote of, 401
Swimming, benefit of, 306
Symbolism of the human body, 83
Syringes, and how to use them, 379
Talent, hereditary, 141
Teething, period of, 279
Temperament, transmission of, 137
Temperaments, explained, 77 influence of, 101 in marriage, 77
Things wanted during confinement, 221
Tight-lacing, 43, 374
Time of expected labor, how to calculate it, 206 of the year to marry, 87 of the month to marry, 87
Times when marital relations should be suspended, 103
Toilet, innocent arts of, 132
Tour, the wedding, 87
Toys, a mean of infantile education, 315
Twins, how to predict, 199 why born, 161
Twin-bearing, 160 influence of, on size of families, 163
Thury, Prof., discovery of, 157
Unborn child, education of, 191
Vaccination, age for, 285 importance of, 282
Varicose veins of pregnancy, 355
Ventilation of sleeping rooms during pregnancy, 212
Virgins, wet-nursing by, 260
Voice, change in, at puberty, 30
Wakefulness of pregnancy, 360
Walk, how to teach a child to, 313
Washing of the new-born infant, 231
Weakness, inward, 368
Weaning, 277
Wedding tour, the, 87 night, the, 91
Weight and length of new-born children, 238
Wet-nurse, how to select, 269
Wet-nursing by virgins and men, 260
White-flowing, 365
Wives famous in history, 59 plurality of, 64
Woman, the three phases in the life of, 22 physical differences from man, 19 sphere of, 21 to be sought, 65
Womb, falling of, 368
Worms of children, home treatment of, 335
Women, diseases peculiar to, 352 treatment of, 377 why redundant, 153
Young wives, 50 mothers, 51
Year, right time of, to marry, 87
Zurich, curious custom in, 93
TESTIMONIALS
OF
EMINENT MEN AND OF THE PRESS
TO THE
PHYSICAL LIFE OF WOMAN
AND ITS AUTHOR.
Of the very numerous testimonials in our hands we select those of earlier date in preference, as showing the acumen of the writers and the warmth with which they welcomed the book.
FROM WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M.D.,
Late Surgeon-General of U. S. Army; Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System and of Clinical Medicine in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. '69.
DR. NAPHEYS—
Dear Sir: I have read with much interest and satisfaction your very admirable book on "The Physical Life of Woman." I am glad that the subject has been taken up by one who shows himself so thoroughly qualified for the task, and I trust the instruction and advice contained in the volume will reach every woman in the land.
Yours, sincerely,
WILLIAM A. HAMMOND.
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FROM REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 1869.
DR. GEO. H. NAPHEYS—
Dear Sir: I have examined your volume: "The Physical Life of Woman," and desire to thank you for performing a work so long needed, so difficult to perform, and now, at length, so well done by you. Every mother should have this book, nor should she suffer a child to be married without the knowledge which this work contains. Thousands have dragged through miserable lives and many have perished for want of such knowledge. It is to be hoped, too, now that these delicate topics have been so modestly and plainly treated, that your work will supersede the scores of ill-considered and often mischievous treatises addressed "to the married," which too often serve the lusts of men under the pretence of virtue.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
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FROM REV. HORACE BUSHNELL, D.D.
HARTFORD, CONN., Sept. 1869.
GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D.—
Dear Sir: I have read a large part of your book with interest. I shrink from expressing any estimate of it as respects its physiological merit, but it seems to be a book well studied, and it is written with much delicacy and a careful respect, at all points, to the great interests of morality. It will certainly be a great help to intelligence on the subject, and ought, therefore, to be correspondingly useful.
Very respectfully yours,
HORACE BUSHNELL.
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FROM HARVEY L. BYRD, M.D.,
Professor of Obstetrics in the Medical Department of Washington University of Baltimore, Maryland.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1869.
DR. GEO. H. NAPHEYS, Philadelphia—
Dear Sir: I have examined with much pleasure and satisfaction your work on "The Physical Life of Woman," and do not hesitate to commend it most warmly to our countrywomen, for whose benefit it is intended. I congratulate you on the felicitous manner in which you have treated so difficult a subject, and would recommend it to the public as supplying a want that has long been felt in this country.
Omne verum utile dictu, and what can be more proper or more useful than that woman should be made acquainted with the great laws of her being and the duties for which she was created?
Very respectfully, your obed't servant,
HARVEY L. BYRD.
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EXTRACT FROM LETTER RECEIVED FROM EDWIN M. SNOW, M.D., OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 1869.
DR. NAPHEYS—
Dear Sir: I have examined with much interest the advance sheets of your book, "The Physical Life of Woman:" I am highly pleased with it. The advice given seems to me to be generally correct, and judiciously expressed; and, in my opinion, the wide circulation of the book would be a benefit to the community,
Truly yours,
EDWIN M. SNOW.
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FROM REV. GEORGE ALEX. CROOKE, D.D., D.C.L.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1869. DR. GEO. H. NAPHEYS—
Dear Sir: I have carefully read your work entitled "The Physical Life of Woman," and, as the result, I must candidly say that I believe the information it contains is well calculated to lessen suffering and greatly benefit the human race. I know there are some falsely fastidious persons who would object to any work of the kind, but "to the pure all things are pure." You have done your part fearlessly and well, and in a popular manner, and I trust that your work may be productive of all the good you design by its publication.
Very faithfully, GEO. ALEX. CROOKE.
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OPINION OF LLOYD P. SMITH, Esq.
Librarian Philadelphia Library.
LIBRARY CO. OF PHILADELPHIA, FIFTH ST. BEL. CHESTNUT, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1869.
It is an open question whether books de secretis mulierum should be written for the general public; but there is no doubt that, when they are written, it should be done by the regular faculty, and not by ignorant quacks. Dr. Napheys' "Physical Life of Woman" shows not only the scientific attainments of the author, but also a wide range of miscellaneous reading. The delicate subjects treated of are handled with a seriousness and earnestness becoming their importance, and the author's views are expressed in excellent English.
LLOYD P. SMITH.
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OPINION OF S. W. BUTLER, M.D.
Editor of the Philadelphia "Medical and Surgical Reporter."
I have carefully examined "The Physical Life of Woman," and find it a work at once thoroughly representing modern science, and eminently adapted for family instruction. It is well suited to female readers, to whom it is especially addressed both in the matter it contains and in the delicacy with which points relating to their physiological life are mentioned.
S. W. BUTLER.
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EXTRACT FROM LETTER RECEIVED FROM JOHN H. GRISCOM, M.D.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1869. DR NAPHEYS—
My Dear Sir: The "Physical Life of Woman" is a very scientific and intellectually written work, and contains almost all the physiological and sanitary facts and directions needed for the preservation of the health and longevity of the maiden, wife, and mother. It must prove attractive and useful for any lady who reads it.
Your sincere friend, JOHN H. GRISCOM.
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FROM THE NATIONAL BAPTIST, PHILA., DEC. 30, 1869
We join in the cordial welcome which this book has received. There is no other work which tells so well just what every woman—and every considerate man also—ought to know. Maternity is the one great function of woman, according to God's ordinance, and for this marvelous and holy mission her physical, intellectual, and moral constitution has been designed. Dr. Napheys, in his wise "Advice to maiden, wife, and mother," passes in review the cardinal facts respecting woman's physical life. The book is written in a very clear and simple style, so that no one can misunderstand it, while there is nothing to disturb or offend the most sensitive. A judicious mother would do her maturing daughters great service by first carefully reading this volume herself, and then have them read it under her guidance.
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OPINION OF MRS. R. B. GLEASON, M.D.
ELMIRA, N. Y., Sept. 1869.
The advance sheets of "The Physical Life of Woman" have been read with much interest. In this book Dr. Napheys has well met a real need of the age. There are many things incident to woman's physical organization which she needs to know, and concerning which she still does not want to ask a physician, and may not have one at hand when she most desires the information. This book can be easily read and perfectly understood by those not familiar with medical terms. All matters of delicacy are treated with freedom, and still with a purity of thought and expression which is above criticism.
For many years we have been often asked for just such a book, and shall gladly commend it to the many wives and mothers who want for themselves and grown-up daughters such a book of helps and hints for home life.
MRS. R. B. GLEASON.
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FROM PROFESSOR JOHN S. HART, LL.D.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, TRENTON, N. J. GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D.—
Dear Sir: I have read with attention the advance sheets of your book, "The Physical Life of Woman:" and take pleasure in saying that you have handled a most difficult and important subject with equal delicacy and ability.
Yours truly, JOHN S. HART.
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OPINION OF MARK HOPKINS, D.D., LL.D.,
President of Williams College.
"Your book is conscientiously written, and will be likely to do good."
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FROM THE N. Y. EVANGELIST, NOV. 18, 1869.
This is a plain and practical treatise, prepared by a physician of skill and experience, in which he aims to furnish information to women, in their peculiar conditions and relations, married and single, so as to enable them to preserve their own health, and perform their duties to themselves and their children. The most delicate subjects are treated in language so chaste as not to offend any pure mind.
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OPINION OF DR. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1869.
"Believing that such a work as Dr. Napheys' 'Physical Life of Woman,' giving a great deal of valuable information, explicitly and delicately, is likely to be of very essential importance to the fair sex, I cannot hesitate to express my favorable opinion of its object and execution."
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LETTER RECEIVED FROM REV. GEO. BRINGHURST,
Rector of the P. E. Church of the "Messiah," Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1869. DR. GEO. H. NAPHEYS—
My Dear Sir: I have perused with considerable care and pleasure the work on the "Physical Life of Woman," and feel no hesitation in pronouncing it admirably composed, honest, succinct, refined, and worthy of the companionship of every lady of this age. I hail its appearance with gratitude, and look upon it as a valuable contribution to those efforts which are making in various directions to elevate the tone of morals of the nineteenth century, and to enable mothers to discharge faithfully the duties they owe their children.
Sincerely yours, GEORGE BRINGHURST.
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FROM H. N. EASTMAN, M.D.,
Professor of Practical Medicine in Geneva Medical College.
GENEVA, Sept. 1869. GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D.—
Dear Sir: I have just completed a careful reading of your advance sheets of "The Physical Life of Woman," and I unhesitatingly pronounce it an admirable work, and one especially needed at this time. The book is written in a chaste, elevated, and vigorous style, is replete with instruction indispensable to the welfare and happiness of woman, and should be placed in the hands of every mature maiden and matron in our land.
H. N. EASTMAN.
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EDITORIAL FROM PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER.
It is a singular fact, that in this country, most of the works on medical and hygienic matters have been written by irregular practitioners in order to help on its legs some ism or pathy of their own. The public is really desirous of information about the great questions of life and health. It buys whatever is offered it, and cannot tell of course the tares from the wheat. In fact, as we have said, there has been very little wheat offered it. Scientific physicians do not seem to have taken the pains in this country, as in Germany, to expand sound medical information among the people.
We therefore welcome all the more warmly a work which, under any circumstances, would command our praise, advance sheets of which are now before us. The author is Dr. George H. Napheys, of this city, well known to all the readers of the "Reporter" as a constant contributor to its pages for a number of years, a close student of therapeutics, and a pleasing writer. The title of the book is "The Physical Life of Woman: advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother." It is a complete manual of information for women, in their peculiar conditions and relations, married and single.
The style is simple, agreeable, and eminently proper and delicate, conspicuously so when treating of such difficult topics to handle in a popular book, yet so necessary to be handled, as the marital relations of husband and wife, the consummation of marriage, etc.
We do not doubt that this work will find as large a sale both in and out of the profession in this country, as the works of Bock and Klencke in Germany, and of Tilt and Chavasse in England.
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FROM THE NASHVILLE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY FOR NOVEMBER, 1869.
The outside of this book is more stylish and artistic than any the market has owed to the press this season. The type and paper of the inside are in keeping with the elegant exterior. The work contains much valuable matter, in a style peculiarly attractive. It is intended to treat woman as a rational being, to let her know much about herself as a woman, that from this knowledge she may prevent and therefore escape much of the suffering endured by her sex.
And who can do this but a physician? This may be regarded as the first attempt of the kind in this country.
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FROM THE MEDICAL RECORD, NEW YORK, JAN. 15, 1870.
Doctor Napheys, in his work on "The Physical Life of Woman," has acquitted himself with infinite credit. The subject, which for a work of its size takes a very wide range, is treated in choice, nay elegant language, and we have not noticed a single expression upon the most delicate matter that could offend the most refined taste. There are, too, a great many interesting historical facts connected with the general topic, both in an ethical and physiological point of view, which show much discrimination in their production, and a good amount of sterling scholarship. To the medical reader there are many points in the book that are worthy of attention, prominent among which are remarks bearing upon the right of limitation of offspring. We sincerely hope that, for the real benefit of American women, it may meet with a hearty reception, and be productive of great good, in preventing many of those disorders now so rife in the community, which are solely the result of ignorance of the ordinary laws of female hygiene.
No one, however scrupulous, need fear to admit the work within the pale of his family circle, and place it, with confidence, in the hands of his daughters.
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FROM THE NEW YORK MEDICAL GAZETTE, JAN. 8, 1870.
Though professedly written for popular instruction, this little book will not fail to instruct as well the professional reader. We cordially recommend the perusal of Dr. Napheys' book to every woman seeking a fuller acquaintance with her physical organism.
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FROM THE BOSTON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL, NOV. 25, 1869.
Most valuable for the perusal of mothers, and of those fathers who may be equal to the task of advising sons liable to commit matrimony. The style—of the text—is unexceptionable. Words are not wasted, and those used are to the point. The volume is not a mere resume of others' opinions; but the author has made the topics of which he treats his own.
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FROM THE CHICAGO MEDICAL EXAMINER OF NOV. 1869.
This work is written in a plain and pleasing style, well calculated both to please and instruct. There is nothing of the sensational or imaginative character in it. On the contrary, its teachings are in strict accordance with scientific facts and good sense. Though designed specially for females, yet a careful perusal would be productive of much benefit to both sexes.
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FROM THE METHODIST HOME JOURNAL, DEC. 4, 1860.
Hitherto, the subjects so honestly and so skilfully treated in this volume have, to a very great extent, been ruled out of the realm of popular knowledge, and information of this class sought only in a clandestine manner. The people have suffered by deplorable ignorance on those topics, which should be as familiar to us as the alphabet. Dr. Napheys, by his scientific handling of the physiological points which relate to health, training, and development, has rendered a great service to the world. This, the press, and public men, have not been slow to acknowledge. The book has gained unqualified praise, and well deserves it.
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FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 4, '69.
A book which treats wisely and delicately of very important subjects, and subjects which ought to be treated by competent hands, instead of being left to quacks and the venders of nostrums. Dr. Napheys is evidently a conscientious and intelligent physician, and his counsels are such as may be put in the hands of all persons needing such counsels. We commend it for its judicious exposition of the laws of nature.
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FROM THE NEW YORK CHRISTIAN UNION, JAN. 8, 1870.
Society owes a debt of gratitude to this brave and scientific physician for the unexceptionable way in which he has performed a work that has, up to the publication of this book, been a paramount need, not to be satisfied anywhere in the English language. If the volume contained only the chapter on the influence of the mother's mind upon her unborn child, we would recommend its purchase by every family in the United States.
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FROM THE PHILA. EVENING TELEGRAPH, OCT. 6, 1869.
This is a work by a physician of reputation on the hygiene of woman, designed for popular use, and introducing a variety of topics not generally discussed outside of regular scientific medical works. Dr. Napheys writes with dignity and earnestness, and there is not a chapter in his book that may not be read by persons of both sexes. Of course such a work as this is intended for men and women of mature years, and it is not suitable to be left lying about for the gratification of idle curiosity. The author has been careful to write nothing that can possibly give offence, and he conveys much sound instruction that, if heeded by those to whom it is particularly addressed, will save much suffering.
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FROM THE INDEPENDENT, NEW YORK, NOV. 11, 1869.
It required a brave but sensitively pure man to provide for the want which existed for some reliable medical instruction upon points which every woman and every married man ought to know, and few do. Dr. Napheys we do not know personally. But his book is at once brave and pure. It is written in such a spirit that she who really desires to learn the truths of which she cannot with justice to herself or others be ignorant, may do so without being shocked; while he who hopes to stimulate a vicious imagination by its perusal will turn from its pages disappointed away.
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FROM REV. HENRY CLAY TRUMBULL,
Secretary of New England Department of Missions of the American Sunday-school Union.
HARTFORD, CT., Oct. 1869.
GEO. H. NAPHEYS, M.D.—
My Dear Sir: Understanding, from my long acquaintance with you, your thoroughness of mental culture, your delicacy of sentiment, and your sound good sense, I was prepared to approve heartily the tone and style of your new work, "The Physical Life of Woman," when its advance sheets were first placed in my hands.
A close examination of it convinces me that it is a book which can be read by every woman to her instruction and advantage. Its manner is unexceptionable. Its style is remarkably simple. Its substance evidences your professional knowledge and your extensive study. I believe it needs only to be brought to notice to commend itself widely. I think you have done an excellent work in its preparation.
Sincerely your friend,
H. CLAY TRUMBULL.
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FROM THE REV. W. H. H. MURRAY,
Pastor of the Park Street Church, Boston, Mass.
DEC. 2, 1871.
It is with sincere gratitude to the author that I give my endorsement to the book entitled "The Physical Life of Woman." Never was such a work more needed anywhere, or in any age, than it is in America at this time. I should rejoice at its introduction among the people until every wife and mother in the country and the world had a copy in her possession. In it the author has indeed given needed instruction and warning. He deserves the thanks of every Christian and well-wisher of the race.
W. H. H. MURRAY.
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