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of disease is a greater benefactor than the one who can lessen the mortality or suffering after the disease has occurred.
ANNA M. GALBRAITH.
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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 _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER II.
HYGIENE OF PUBERTY
Home Life; Corsets; Shoes; Underwear; Nutrition; Diet; Water; Constipation; School Life; Spinal Curvature; Exercise; Walking; Running _________________________________________________________________

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 _________________________________________________________________

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 _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER V.
THE ANOMALIES OF MENSTRUATION
Menorrhagia and Metrorrhagia; Dysmenorrhea; Amenorrhea; Leucorrhea; Pruritus Vulva _________________________________________________________________

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 _________________

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 _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER VIII.
SEXUAL INSTINCT IN WOMEN
Sexual Instinct in Women; Excessive Coitus; Causes of Sexual Excitability _________________________________________________________________

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 _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER XI.
THE CONFINMENT
Preparation for the Confinement; Signs of Approaching Labor; Symptoms of Actual Labor; The Confinement-bed; the Process of Labor _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER XII.
THE LYING-IN
Management of the Lying-in; Lactation; Nursing _________________________________________________________________

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 _________________________________________________________________

CHAPTER XV.
HYGIENE OF THE MENOPAUSE
Diet; Constipation; Stimulants; the Kidneys; Skin; Turkish Baths; Massage; Exercise; Profuse Menstruation; Hemorrhage; Mental Therapeutics _________________________________________________________________

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 in his youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, to be turned to any kind of work, to spin the gossamers as well as to forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with the great and fundamental truths of nature and the laws of her operations; one whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself."
The Correlation of Mind and Body.-- It is of the