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Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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which does not upbuild the body; they liveindolently, or partake of enervating pleasures and excesses.On a whole, they are no better than men, though, perhaps,their dissipations are, as a rule, more refined. But whenlife is the stake, the delicate, insidious poisons of Cath-erine de Medici were as potent as was later the guillotineof the Revolutionists. In the marriage relation, women are more often mar-tyrs than sinners. Without a true knowledge of what thatintimacy should mean, and listening to the voice of customand precedent, which commands obedience to the desiresof the connubial partner, be they what they may, womenhave submitted, with various degrees of grace. Manystruggle to preserve a well-poised individuality against theawful submission of harlotry; but few succeed. The out-ward life must harmonize with the inward life; diseasewill sooner or later show its levelling influence. It is safeto judge that a healthy, happy wife is never prostituted; DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. 441
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Nerves of the Uterus. 1, sacrum; 2, rectum; 3, bladder; 4, uterus; 5, ovary; 6, extremity of Fallopian tube. and just to say that the wan, hollow-eyed, sad-faced wifeis a martyr to connubial sensuality. The transition state from a rudimentary civilization toone of greater promise, allows the seeking and finding of 442 FEMINOLOGY. blighting causes. Before it began, it was considered out-side of all reason to look into the marriage relation as thesource of wrong. A mans home was his castle, into whichprying impertinence must be excluded; and a mans busi-ness was his own, in no way subject to investigation. Butwhen the outcroppings of injustice showed their piteous,pleading faces, humanity dared question whence came thewrong. The finding has been slow, because of the prideof womankind. If the man gave her a blow, it was allright, so the neighbors could not see its mark. The exteriormust be smooth, no matter how loudly the bones of the skeleton in the closet rattled. The organs of generat

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