Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . of the va-gina and also the skin, and even ulceration. It is often attended with intolerableitching. Husbands may be-come diseased from thesesecretions and have well de-veloped uretheretis, and fre-quently good and innocentwives are accused of infi-delity by their husbands,and separation and divorceare not infrequent from suchcauses. Poor wives, whatmust they not endure! Hus-bands, think of the infamyand injustice of such an ac-cusation against a sick andsuffering wife. Indeed,veryma
Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . of the va-gina and also the skin, and even ulceration. It is often attended with intolerableitching. Husbands may be-come diseased from thesesecretions and have well de-veloped uretheretis, and fre-quently good and innocentwives are accused of infi-delity by their husbands,and separation and divorceare not infrequent from suchcauses. Poor wives, whatmust they not endure! Hus-bands, think of the infamyand injustice of such an ac-cusation against a sick andsuffering wife. Indeed,verymany physicians will alsocondemn the poor woman,through their own igno-rance or lack of ability to make a correct diagnosis of thedisease, causing the woman to become the victim of sus-picion, if not of persecution, through their hope all men who read this lecture will treasure it up,and do justice to their afflicted wives. Oh ! husband,young or old, do not outrage your sick wife by beastlydemands; do not refuse to employ a physician to cureher, and dare not to add insult to injury already done,. Cervical of the neck of the womb,leading to the cavity, shown by thedots. LIFE AND HYGIENE. 247 by accusing her of a crime of which she is innocent—an accusation which crushes her hopes and pierces herheart as a dagger. I will here state once for all, that every form of fe-male complaint, whether acute or chronic, where thereis any discharge whatsoever, may produce urethretis inthe male, resulting in symptoms very or quite similarto gonorrhoea. The menstrual flow, or the glairy se-cretions which frequently follow it for a day or two,may also produce very similar symptoms in the trust what I have said will not offend even the mostfastidious, and, I am sure, if read and remembered,will be the means of preventing many unjust suspic-ions, and of ruining the lives of many innocentwomen, and the destruction of families. To study na-tures laws is to stu
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