A Physician's Counsels to Woman, in Health and Disease.

403, [5] pp. 8vo. Hoolihan 3449: "Taylor divides his text into four parts. "Part I. What makes a woman" discusses the sexual physiology of woman from puberty to "changing life." "Part II. Woman a wife" addresses sleeping arrangements with her husband, eugenics, abortion and pregnancy." "Part III. The wife a mother" concerns nursing and infant care. "Part IV. Woman is [sic] disease" reviews the causes of female disorders (e.g., tight-lacing, want of exercise, "improper nervous excitement"), and such disorders as menstruation, sterility, neuralgia, and headache." Contents: Preface; Part I. What Makes Woman: Structure and Functions; Puberty; The Monthly Change; Nubility; The Single Life; The Change of Life; The Preliminaries of Marriage. Part II. Woman a Wife: Animal and Spiritual Love; What Parents Transmit to Their Offspring; On the Voluntary Production of Sex; The Limitation of Families; Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy; The Hygiene of Pregnancy; The Perils of Pregnancy. Part III. The Wife a Mother: The Hygiene of the Infant Before Weaning; What the Mother Should Do In Slight Accidents To the Child; The Role of the Mother in the Diseases of Childhood. Part IV. Woman in Disease: The Prevention of Disease in Woman; Painful Periods; Profuse Periods; Scanty and Suppressed Periods; Sterility in Marriage; White Flowing; Poverty of the Blood; Neuralgic Pains; Headaches; Parting Words; Index.