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! CONTAINING Rules for preserving Tho health 81
~ Unmarried femalesi Directions 10 fIelpahi ',t'
Living IN Wsmen and account Of their Disease, To-
10Th .th Instructions tor tie Rearing 81 OhIidteh
from lie hour Of teir Birth and account OF me p
. asss Of Infancy by the author ct The hehte"aA
| Medical Pocket Book. Piice 30 els
The fapid sale nd universal aPprontlon ~hich INC
| GgSfITaAs's MEDICAL PoeKET Book has met W.T.
hn se The publishers 10 engage the thent, oil ibe
same ntliar IN the production oil MEDICAL loohki
Boog expresl or The use oi ! EaAtts
sang ttem.slYes 81 hints obtained from dlnefeet
peetshr they berel se-eht 10 the pubic an
Of the symptoms nd treatment =" 'hose
Dsease- Hhch NE peculiar to tn FEMME sex ana -
Inf1nls they have embraced IN 4. also, the ger eaI
rules Tor the Reservation of the Health and Comfort of
Females dprip tho Single ana M.rriige state; aud Dr.
reetons for the proper Rearing al Cdre1 N reference
10 cir DIT and Regimen: Wills. in an Appendix y
added a short entise onIha all absorbing subject hfl
demie Gholern. -,
The Publishers feel PEI suaded TINT the work will be
found in every repe worthy the attention nj the sex 10
which il i especially dedirutFd and TINT Mothers viii
find in il useful manuel OF instruction Tor heir guidance
during Pregna cy, in the Lyng-n Chamber, and IN the
Nurserv
The means by winch the full deyelopmen; Of the body
and the health, vigar and ncyity Of The human Syshm'
best romoted and mainainei, arc, unit itnhhley
too lille attended Ia by The Fenale And vet 10
their consideration the female IS urged by tie powerful
motives of duty md self interest Beauty cannot IN
reality exist independent of health: the means which
tend to preserve the one ing equally calculated to i'm
prove and promote tho other; while the first Is absolute
~ 10y any practice ineoni'tet win the lat
ter In vain does the female hope to improve her skin
to give n hue to her conplecioni or TO aug
the grace ard symmetry Of her form unless she Is
cautious ptese the whole frame IN health, eehr
and activity. Beauty of complexion, and, TO certain
extent that Of shape also, ia othng more than visible
henth-n pure mirror of the perfect peroi OF Inc
Internal functions of life. and Of their harmony with the
external portions the systematic certain elects oi
pun mir cheerfuness. temperance, and of exercise I'M
impededby any species Of unnatural restaint
There is however n sill more important reason why,
independent all nsdcrotons connected with erso-
nal comfort and happiness this subject should orcepy
the attention of the Youthful fur-t lie well being OF
those who mny 10 her their existence. The iact-
that upon her heth depend in very great measure
the health freedom from deformt, ind future useful
ness, often the very lite Of her offspring cannot ail to
recommend those most strongly to ire attention
of her who desires be haed by the endearng appel
laion of mother and to experience the happiness ol
beholding herself surrounded by healthy an joyous
offspring. II is a solemn truth that female las any
right expect in the child which she gives birth,
what she does herself possess-a sound well torned
and robust frame She, therefore, who negects Eer own
health or in the pursuit of folly dissipation exhansts
the energies of her eonsitu ion WILL in the majority OF
cases, either b, doomed to be chdlesa wife, or be
cursed with short lived deformed and puny race OF
,h-pring. the hapless victims of mothers folly
Such being the importance of Health tn Females. n
work which, like the present, exhibits brett exposition
of the mannerin which il is certainly to he obtain
ed and preserved, will persuadcdbe received by
them with approbaton AMI claim ter serious attention
The First Part is devoted solely the of Pre-.
serving the Health and promoting the perfect develop
ment of the constitution of the Unmarried Female In
the chapters devoted To Dyspepsia ami to Training for
Health, will be found full of the and
symptoms of one of the most distressing and common
complaints of the female sex with the for its pre-
yenton and treatment
is rot, howe er, during youth erely, that the fe'
male commits the greatest They are often per-
sisted in after Marriage and added to an improper
course of conduct The result If ignorance and prejudice
during Pregnancy and the Lyingn state eopnrdize the
life of er offspring md entail upon the mother suffering
md disease which often Iast Tor tho remainder of her
davs The Second Part of the work therefore, is ad.
dressel In tho uo,,7d Female and erbrnces the eau.
lions tn be bsrvnd in order n insure The Heah of the
No,bor md Tho Life of her Child during there two inn
MARIAN, neriod.
Az Tho eqrly treatment of Infants exert, powerful
;g.n,o nnor ,lei, s,bsoouat beah comfort r nd 90.