Womanhood : causes of its premature decline, respectfully illustrated : being a review of the changes and derangements of the female constitution : a safe and faithful guide to mothers during gestation, before and after confinement : with medical advice of the most salutary and important nature to all females : also, sixty vegetable and domestic recipes with directions : in three parts / by A.G. Hall.

  • Hall, A. G.
Date:
1845, ©1843
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Credit: Womanhood : causes of its premature decline, respectfully illustrated : being a review of the changes and derangements of the female constitution : a safe and faithful guide to mothers during gestation, before and after confinement : with medical advice of the most salutary and important nature to all females : also, sixty vegetable and domestic recipes with directions : in three parts / by A.G. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    IBBSESS 10 THE READER. In presenting a work of this nature to tne female portion of an enlightened community, a variety of considerations are awakened in the mind of its au- thor. It is with peculiar emotions, that he attempts, in so public a manner, to convey, through the me- dium of its pages, that necessarily delicate and high- ly important information that weakly mothers so much require. His fears have almost led him to conclude that it would not meet with that reception v/hich it might inohahly claim under other circum- stances. Through a period of more than twenty years practice, anxious and inquisitive on all subjects of interest in his profession, the author has been gradu- ally led to form those conclusions which the work will more fully develope on a perusal. He has hum- bly endeavored to couch his sentiments, on delicate subjects, in language as simple as it is expressive, with the utmost regard to those for whom it is designed. On a serious review of the positions of the female organs—the various functions and phenomena they are required to perform, it is a fact, not less surpri- sing than it is true, that the female system, placed ander so continuou-s a periodical and natural grada-