Chapter 2

Effects on wives

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The greatest cause of uterine disease

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Legalized murder

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Indulgence during menstruation

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Effects upon offspring

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Indulgence during pregnancy

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Effect upon the character

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A selfish objection

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Brutes and savages more considerate

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What may be done

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Early moderation

PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION:ITS EVILS AND DANGERS.

Conjugal onanism

—"Male continence"—

Shaker views

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Moral bearings of the question

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Unconsidered murders

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The charge disputed

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Difficulties

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Woman's rights

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What to do

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A compromise

INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION.

Not a modern crime

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Causes of the crime

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The nature of the crime

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Instruments of crime

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Results of this unnatural crime

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An unwelcome child

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The remedy

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Murder by proxy

THE SOCIAL EVIL.

Unchastity of the ancients

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Causes of the "social evil"

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Libidinous blood

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Gluttony

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Precocious sexuality

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Man's lewdness

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Fashion

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Lack of early training

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Sentimental literature

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Poverty

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Ignorance

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Disease

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Results of licentiousness

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Thousands of victims

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Effects of vice ineradicable

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The only hope

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Hereditary effects of venereal disease

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Man the only transgressor

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Origin of the foul disease

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Cure of the "social evil"

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Prevention the only cure

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Early training

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Teach self-control

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Mental culture

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Early associations

SOLITARY VICE.

Alarming prevalence of the vice

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Testimony of eminent authors

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Not a modern vice

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Victims of all ages

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Unsuspected rottenness

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Causes of the habit

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Evil associations

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Corruption in schools

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Wicked nurses

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Not an uncommon case

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The instructor in vice

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Local disease

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An illustrative case

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Other physical causes

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Influence of stimulants

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Signs of self-abuse

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Suspicious signs

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General debility

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Early symptoms of consumption

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Premature and defective development

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Sudden change in disposition

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Lassitude

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Sleeplessness

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Failure of mental capacity

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Fickleness

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Untrustworthiness

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Love of solitude

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Bashfulness

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Unnatural boldness

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Mock piety

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Confusion of ideas

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Round shoulders

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Weak backs

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Pains in the limbs

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Stiffness of the joints

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Paralysis

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Gait

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Bad positions

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Lack of development of the breasts

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Capricious appetite

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Eating clay

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The use of tobacco

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Unnatural paleness

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Acne

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Biting the finger nails

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Palpitation of the heart

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Hysteria

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Chlorosis

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Epileptic fits

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Wetting the bed

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Unchastity of speech

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Positive signs

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Results of secret vice

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Effects in males

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Local effects

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Urethral irritation

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Stricture

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Enlarged prostate

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Urinary diseases

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Priapism

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Piles

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Prolapsus of rectum

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Extension of irritation

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Atrophy

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Varicocele

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Nocturnal emissions

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Exciting causes

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Are occasional emissions necessary or harmless?

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Emissions not necessary to health

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Eminent testimony

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Diurnal emissions

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Cause of diurnal emissions

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Internal emissions

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An important caution

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Impotence

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General effects

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General debility

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Consumption

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Dyspepsia

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Heart-disease

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Throat affections

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Nervous diseases

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Epilepsy

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Failure of special senses

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Spinal irritation

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Insanity

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A victim's mental condition pictured

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Effects in females

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Local effects

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Leucorrhoea

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Uterine disease

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Cancer of the womb

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Sterility

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Atrophy of mammæ

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Pruritis

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General effects

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A common cause of hysteria

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Effects upon offspring

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Treatment of self-abuse and its effects

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Prevention of secret vice

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Cultivate chastity

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Timely warning

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Curative treatment of the effects of self-abuse

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Cure of the habit

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How may a person help himself?

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Hopeful courage

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General regimen and treatment

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Mental and moral treatment

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Exercise

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Never overeat

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Eat but twice a day

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Discard all stimulating food

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Stimulating drinks

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Sleeping

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Dreams

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Can dreams be controlled?

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Bathing

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Improvement of general health

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Prostitution as a remedy

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Marriage

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Local treatment

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Cool sitz bath

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Ascending douche

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Abdominal bandage

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Wet compress

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Hot and cold applications to the spine

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