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the fundamental principles which
underlie the various epochs of their lives; and it is in response to a
widespread demand that this small volume has been written.
This is preeminently the day of preventive medicine; and the physician
who can prevent the origin of disease is a greater benefactor than the
one who can lessen the mortality or suffering after the disease has
occurred.
ANNA M. GALBRAITH.
15 WEST NINETY-FIRST STREET, NEW YORK.
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CONTENTS _________________
INTRODUCTION
EDUCATION AS THE CONTROLLING FACTOR IN THE
PHYSICAL LIFE OF WOMAN
Huxley's Definition of Education; the Correlation of Mind and Body;
the Emotional Nature; Age for Going to School; the Effect of the Study
of the Scientific Branches; Industrial Education _________________

PART I.-- MAIDENHOOD
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CHAPTER I.

PUBERTY
Sexual Development; Age of Puberty; Physical Changes at Puberty;
First Onset of Menstruation; Psychic Changes at Puberty
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CHAPTER II.
HYGIENE OF PUBERTY
Home Life; Corsets; Shoes; Underwear; Nutrition; Diet; Water;
Constipation; School Life; Spinal Curvature; Exercise; Walking;
Running
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CHAPTER III.
ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE GENERATIVE ORGANS
The Vulva; the Hymen; Condition of the Hymen as a Proof of Virginity;
the Bladder; Vagina; Uterus; Respiratory Movements of the Uterus;
Fallopian Tubes; Ovaries
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CHAPTER IV.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FEMALE GENERATIVE ORGANS
Ovulation; Etiology of Menstruation; Uterine Nerve-supply; the

Function of the Uterus; Stages of the Menstrual Cycle; Average
Duration of the Menstrual Flow; Character of the Flow; Relation of
Ovulation to Menstruation; the Menstrual Wave; Definition of
Menstruation; Premonitory Symptoms of the Flow; Hygiene of
Menstruation
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CHAPTER V.
THE ANOMALIES OF MENSTRUATION
Menorrhagia and Metrorrhagia; Dysmenorrhea; Amenorrhea;
Leucorrhea; Pruritus Vulva
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CHAPTER VI.
THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
Herbert Spencer's Definition of Love; What Constitutes a Suitable
Husband; Best Age for Marriage; Shall Cousins Marry?
Contraindications to Marriage; Do Reformed Profligates Make Good
Husbands? the Proper Length of Time for the Engagement; the Right
Time of the Year to Marry; the Selection of the Wedding Day
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PART II.-- MARRIAGE
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CHAPTER VII.
THE ETHICS OF MARRIED LIFE
The Wedding Journey; the Ethics of Married Life; Shall Husband and
Wife Occupy the Same Bed? the Consummation of Marriage; the
Marital Relation; Times when Marital Relations Should be Suspended
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CHAPTER VIII.
SEXUAL INSTINCT IN WOMEN
Sexual Instinct in Women; Excessive Coitus; Causes of Sexual
Excitability
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CHAPTER IX.
STERILITY
Sterility; the Prevention of Conception and the Limitation of Offspring;
the Crime of Abortion; Infidelity in Women _________________

PART III.-- MATERNITY
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CHAPTER X.
PREGNANCY
Nature of Conception; Pregnancy Defined; Duration of Pregnancy; the
Signs of Pregnancy; Quickening; the Determination of Sex at Will; the
Influence of the Male Sexual Element on the Fernale Organism;
Heredity; Hygiene of Pregnancy; Causes of Miscarriage
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CHAPTER XI.
THE CONFINMENT
Preparation for the Confinement; Signs of Approaching Labor;
Symptoms of Actual Labor; The Confinement-bed; the Process of
Labor
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CHAPTER XII.
THE LYING-IN
Management of the Lying-in; Lactation; Nursing
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CHAPTER XIII.

THE NEW-BORN INFANT
The Infant's Toilet; the Crib; Feeding of Infants; the Wet-nurse;
Artificial Feeding; Characteristics of Healthy Infants; the Stools;
Constipation; Urination; Teething _________________

PART IV.-- THE MENOPAUSE
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE MENOPAUSE
Average Duration of the Menstrual Function; Duration of Menopause;
the Menopause; General Phenomena of the Menopause; Prominent
Symptoms of Menopause; Pathologic Conditions of Menopause;
Hemorrhage at the Menopause a Significant Symptom of Cancer;
Causes of Suffering at Menopause
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CHAPTER XV.
HYGIENE OF THE MENOPAUSE
Diet; Constipation; Stimulants; the Kidneys; Skin; Turkish Baths;
Massage; Exercise; Profuse Menstruation; Hemorrhage; Mental
Therapeutics
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CHAPTER XVI.
HINTS FOR HOME TREATMENT
Indigestion; Constipation; Enemas; Diarrhea; Vaginal Douché, Baths;
Headache; Fainting; Hemorrhage _________________
GLOSSARY _________________
THE
FOUR EPOCHS
OF
WOMAN'S LIFE _________________
INTRODUCTION. _________________
EDUCATION AS THE CONTROLLING FACTOR IN THE
PHYSICAL LIFE OF WOMAN.
Huxley's Definition of Education; the Correlation of Mind and Body;
the Emotional Nature; Age for Going to School; the Effect of the Study
of tuse Scientific Branches; Industrial Education.
"What is man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep
and feed? A beast; no more. Sure, He that made us with such large
discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and
godlike reason To fust in us unused."
-- "Hamlet."
THE word education is here used in its broadest sense, and is meant to
include the physical, mental, intellectual, and industrial. Huxley's
definition is as follows: "Education is the instruction of the intellect in
the laws of nature, under which I include not only things and their

forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of their affections
and of the will into an earnest and living desire to move in harmony
with these laws. That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has
been so trained