Excerpt from Female Health and Hygiene on the Pacific Coast No apology is necessary for an attempt to lessen. The amount of human suffering by explaining the causes of disease, and pointing out the principles. Of its prevention. There is no unobjectionable popular work upon the subject of female hygiene and the many admirable instructions scattered through the texts books are not accessible to gene ral readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Elements of Health, and Principles of Female Hygiene Our Object in the present work is to seek the improve ment of the physical condition Of man and the prevention of disease: it is therefore necessary, before proceeding in our task, to glance at man's nature, and to point out the various partial attempts that have been made to effect this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Female Hygiene: A Lecture Delivered at Sacramento and San Francisco, by Request of the State Board of Health of California Beyond and above all that has been said, it must not be forgotten that while, through the influence of the introduction of anaesthesia and the progress of Obstetrical science, the pangs and perils of parturition have been lessened, and the chance also Of its subsequent evils, as vesico-vaginal fistula, crural and other embolism, and pelvic inflamma tion, and while an increasing self-control in the masses has practically subjected Venus to Minerva, and while the restlessness of the age has endeavored to introduce into public and private life a third sex, that of masculine women, - there are causes still effective in inducing ill health in our women which have been only indicated, and never as yet carefully studied. Such are long betrothals, attended as they so often are by hope realized and yet deferred, - for the physiology now taught in our schools gives the knowledge of much that were better then dispensed with the too prevalent custom of avoiding lactation, lest it interfere with the requirements of fashion and the fact, a very im portant one in this connection, that, thanks to improvements in sanitary science, the sickly children that in former times used to die in infancy are now many of them raised. The delicate girls that at puberty were mown down by phthisis as grass before the scythe, now many of them live to become wives and mothers, in their turn begetting frail and invalid offspring. I do not believe with certain authors that the healthy woman is the physical equal of the man in every respect; but I do believe that, while a host of pelvic aches and ills have grown into existence as the result of a change from the age Of Force to that of Reason, there were in the old times behind us, that we are wrongly taught were golden, deaths without number from pelvic causes unsuspected, ovarian dropsies supposed ascitic, local organic hypertrophies, out growths and degenerations misnamed affections of the liver, and all sorts of disease from oversight or neglect by the physician, special in their causation, and wrongly designated as by the providence of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life: A Study in Hygiene The Hygiene of Puberty, one on Hemorrhage at the Menopause a Significant Symptom of Cancer, and one on The Hygiene of the Menopause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Hygiene of Women and Children In this book passing references only have been made to general sanitation - just to point out how general sanitation affects the individual. The next development of the whole subject of Hygiene was along certain special lines - the hygiene of the child at various ages. Thus, the school medical service deals with the child of school age, the infant welfare work started on the infant after birth, and spread backwards to the mother and onwards to the child of school age. As a whole, the subject had arisen and had of necessity been dealt with, as it were, in sections of the community. Again, we have the special arrangements for dealing with tuberculosis and venereal disease, all on communal lines. A community is, however, made up in the aggregate of families, and these of individuals, and it is to the individual and the home that attention has been directed in this book. After all, it is to the individual that we must come in the end for any concerted effort. General public health measures will only carry us a certain way - they must be the first step - but the final step must be by the individual. It has been well said that people can be made neither healthy nor sober by Act of Parliament. Acts of Parliament are, however, essential in dealing with the impediments which prevent individuals from working out their own salvation, but they cannot effect this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Women, Plumbers, and Doctors: Or Household Sanitation About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
