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The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene
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From the opening
THE author takes this opportunity to thank the medical profession and
the laity for the very cordial reception which has been tendered the
first edition of this small volume.
The necessity for the use of technical expressions in a book written
expressly for the laity must always be a matter of regret. And only
those who have attempted to write a similar work can fully appreciate
the truth of Herbert Spencer's remark, that "Nothing is so difficult
as to write an elementary book on scientific subjects."
The author has added to this edition a section on "The Hygiene of
Puberty," one on "Hemorrhage at the Menopause a Significant Symptom of
Cancer," and one on "The Hygiene of the Menopause."
"Ignorance is the curse of God;
Knowledge, the wings wherewith we fly to heaven."
PERFECT health is essential to perfect happiness. The greater the
knowledge of the laws of nature, and the more closely these laws are
lived up to, so much nearer "ideal" will be the health and happiness
of the individual. Hence the necessity that these same laws should be
as familiar to the adult man and woman as the alphabet. Further, with
our present knowledge of the certain suffering, disease, and death
that are bred by ignorance of all these subjects, it is little less
than criminal to allow girls to reach the age of puberty without the
slightest knowledge of the menstrual function; young women to be
married in total ignorance of the ethics of married life; women to
become mothers without any conception of the duties of motherhood;
other women, as the time approaches, to live in dread apprehension of
"the change of life;" and many women unnecessarily to succumb to
disease at this time.
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