Plain Home Talk about the Human System: The Habits of Men and Women--the Causes and Prevention of Disease--our Sexual Relations and Social Natures; Embracing Medical Common Sense Applied to Causes, Prevention, and Cure of Chronic Diseases--the Natural Relations of Men and Women to Each Other--society--love--marriage--parentage, Etc., Etc

Edward Bliss Foote

Well & Coffin, 1870 - Hygiene - 912 pages

Contents

• The Causes of Disease: 26
• The formation of fecal plugs: 29
• Advice in regard to food: 38
• Mind your conscience and not your: 41
• Mankind not run in one mould: 47
• Opening words: 76
• The water of leaden pipes: 85
• The cause of fever and ague: 89
• The Atmosphere we Live in: 95
• 40: 104
• A hint to mechanics who work in metal: 112
• Reason why Adam had but one wife 647: 124
• Red flannel better than white: 125
• Wrong to sleep with old people 186: 137
• 41: 141
• How it is done: 144
• 44: 148
• Why man should lie down at night: 150
• The law of temperaments in medicating: 156
• How people abuse their stomachs: 162
• Its moral and physical effects: 177
• The midnight mission: 186
• The first discovery valuable: 193
• The polygamy of the ancient Hebrews 649: 198
• Providence takes away: 204
• Excessive Study: 211
• How to Preserve the Health: 217
• Dont dose them: 234
• 202: 263
• The authors experience in treating: 265
• SUGGESTIONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF POPULAR: 271
• The rectum described: 272
• Vegetable Medicines: 273
• Held in estimation in all ages: 285
• Child born without a head: 292
• Two kinds of spermatorrhoea: 300
• The hard raps they receive: 316
• What is sauce for the goose is sauce: 325
• TREATMENT: 331
• Chronic Diseases of the Breathing Organs: 336
• The proper treatment of catarrh: 342
• No person need suffer with: 345
• Incorrect views concerning: 349
• A hint to codliveroil doctors: 356
• The value of Mr Parkers testimony: 362
• Constipation: 386
• How the sight becomes impaired: 390
• This disease never correctly understood: 408
• Eyes and Ears: 415
• One of Artemus Wards jokes: 434
• Chronic weakness: 440
• Monogamic marriage may be better: 447
• Derangements of the Monthly: 453
• Suppressed menstruation: 459
• The natural purpose of the hymen: 467
• xviii: 468
• Local symptoms not always present: 474
• Women as well as men subject to them: 479
• Barrenness abhorrent to every: 485
• The importance thereof: 487
• Diseases of the testicles: 509
• The scrotum described: 520
• Avoid claptraps and catchpennies: 540
• Females as well as males impotent 544 Impotency causes dissatisfaction: 548
• What is scrofula: 560
• Formerly incurable: 567
• And take to narecties: 570
• People dosed to death: 573
• Dietetics: 580
• Warranting cures: 588
• PART III: 605
• Their Influence on Physical: 612
• In Egypt: 615
• Philosophy of sexual intercourse: 622
• Chemical electricity: 628
• Facts to sustain it 694: 635
• A curious story of this prophet: 636
• The women of Egypt: 638
• The ceremony described: 644
• A wise Japanese that knows his: 650
• Were there divorces in ancient Rome?: 661
• Back again to the old empire: 667
• Marrying sisters in ancient Pern: 676
• What a young woman saw in Paris: 685
• Marriage and divorce in England: 702
• 165: 705
• Subsequently performed in the church 751: 711
• 166: 712
• One of which is sexual magnetism: 720
• Marriage in Sweden and Norway 710 Concluding reflections: 721
• What Aristotle said of women: 723
• The promise of the older ones: 727
• Their condition in the Community 784: 734
• Smith the Great: 740
• A word about widows: 758
• CHAPTER VI: 765
• CHAPTER VII: 776
• A demoralizing spectacle: 782
• What its upholders should: 795
• What is Mental Adaptation?: 802
• The nonvital temperaments: 809
• 179: 815
• Vagne notions about: 826
• How it affects both sexes: 888

Bibliographic information

• Title: Plain Home Talk about the Human System: The Habits of Men and Women--the Causes and Prevention of Disease--our Sexual Relations and Social Natures; Embracing Medical Common Sense Applied to Causes, Prevention, and Cure of Chronic Diseases--the Natural Relations of Men and Women to Each Other ...
• Author: Edward Bliss Foote
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Well & Coffin, 1870
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Sep 13, 2008
• Length: 912 pages