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469 pages. Probable first edition. On women's health, particularly in pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. Also, the care and health of children, with much on children's diseases, plus much on various naturopathic remedies ("water cure," hot baths, Turkish baths, wet girdle, throat applications and washes, disinfectants, local electrical treatments, massage practices, etc.A feminist work though with a tinge of eugenics. A sample: "The distinctions in dress that are usually made between the sexes, are carried out in the home, in the schoolroom, and everywhere in society. Nor is the distinction always confined to dress. In many familes little girls are pampered, petted and spoiled; and they suffer with indigestion, not merely from bad feeding, but through lack of exercise in the open air and sunshine. Their muscles are not well developed; and as the young girl approaches maturity other and still more radical changees are made in her dress. Before she is hardly grown, that hideous and torturing instrument, the corset, with bones where no bones should be, is clasped about her waist. She must dress as others girls do, and have her "figure" deformed as other girls have theirs. So that before she is twenty, the intercostal muscles concerned in respiration are subparalyzed, and full breathing is impossible. The liver is crowded out of place.the stomach and bowels are sagged down.the abdoniminal contents press upon the pelvic organs, and menstrual derangements are sure to follow." Light bump to bottom outer corner of front board, else very good condition. Scarce. Seller Inventory # 018828
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