File:Plain home talk about the human system-the habits of men and women-the cause and prevention of disease-our sexual relations and social natures (1896) (14764061442).jpg

Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
es ? Is your sexual power impaired ?If married, is the seminal discharge premature? Did you havelosses before marriage? Are your testicles diminished, wasted,swollen, enlarged, aching, tender? Is there any feeling as of a bunch of earth-worms in the scrotum (varicocele)? 22d. If a female, are you troubled with leucorrhoea or whites? Contin-ually or occasionally? Have you bearing down or dragging feelingin the region of the womb? Have physicians told you that thewomb is fallen down, back, or forward? Is marital relation pain-ful? Are you sexually apathetic ? Are the periods regular ? Howmany days do they continue? Is there any pain before, after, orduring the flow? Or other derangement? Is the quantity aboutright, slight, or profuse? Do you have soreness, irritation, smart-ing, or itching in the vagina? Have you ever had miscarriages?If so, how many, and at what period of pregnancy? Were the causes accidental, medical, or surgical? 23d. Is your place of residence considered healthful ?
Text Appearing After Image:
CIVILIZATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 604 PART III PLAIN TALK. ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORGANS; THE NATURAL RELATIONS 01THE SEXES; CIVILIZATION, SOCIETY, AND MARRIAGE. OPENING CHAPTER. INTRODUCTORY WORDS. ?N entering upon a brief consideration ofthe subjects which will be presented inPart III, I do so in obedience to thatmonitor within, whose voice has everchicled me when doing wrong, and encouraged mein every step toward my own moral and physicalimprovement, and in every effort I have ever putforth to rescue my fellow-beings from the bondageof disease, and the grasp of moral and social wretch-edness. It is indeed impossible, at this stage ofthe worlds development, to achieve perfect physi-cal health, or attain unalloyed happiness. Ourplanet has not yet developed a crust that may notbe broken by earthquakes and volcanoes; nor hasit yet obtained such a perfect atmospheric equilib-rium that the hurricane may not sweep the seaor the tornado devastate the land. Science has notyet taught us how

Note About Images