Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-12
The management of the Body.


DR.. Hirschfeld's book on the man
agement of the body Is one that may
be recommended. 1t deals especlaily
with the heart as the seat OF me-
but 1t also teaches what snould oe
known by all about the whole pouy'
the care of which, as the author
says, is only correct and safe wheh
it meets the normal, God-made re-
quirements of man in regard to work.
recreation, sleep, food, sexual me-
climate, progress and society. In its
warnings against certain diseases
and their effects upon generations yet
unborn the work is impressive. IN
this day when even the church dis
cusses the ACCESSIBILITY of eugene
marriages such teaching as is found
in this manual, popular and yet
learned and full of the wisdom OF ex-
perience and that which comes from
a profound study of medical science,
is especially timely. It has Its warm
ing, too, for the surgeon who has be-
come a maniac. almost, on the use
Of the knife. and the pompous, auto
cratic practitioner whose very pres
ence and display Of the instruments
of his profession are sufficient to
alarm the patient and paralyze the
very natural agencies which only re-
quire the physicians gentle aid In
their operation. When a woman sees
a physician approach at the most
crucial time of her life armed as II
for a major operation the power
which the Creator has given her to
conquer in her hour of trial is weak
ened IL not wholly destroyed. and she
lies a victim of the arrogant, stupid
animal called doctor who would
better be engaged in shoveling coal
in a stoke-hoIe. One part OF the book
is particularly appropriate for this
season of marriages and what the
author has to say must commend
itself to those who have any power or
observation or any knowledge of life
at all. To be rightly mated, as the
author says, is the chief point. Next
to this is the agreement that each
may be free to live according to his
or her individuality. Under such a
condition complete sympathy and
partnerships are possible, but not
thorough understanding of the most
intimate thoughts and ideals. Men
and women, even though the embry-
onic life of both is identical, are diff
ferent and, if their natures are COM
pick, neither, as the author wisely
declares, can have more than a gen.
eral idea of the life which the other
is leading. This is Sc true that the
man whose wife daily though uncon-
proves to him that she is of
finer clay than himself, that her in
tuitive knowledge of him and of his
aims is unerrring, while to him she
is ever a mystery, will at once ac-
knowledge it. The virile man may be
the complement of his wife, but the
effeminate man will understand her
moods and contradictions. But this
of feminine qualities
will not serve him in winning the
passionate affection which he Graves.
He will only be disappointment to
the woman unless her nature be as
as his own. In fiction
it is only such writer's as George
Eliot and George Sand who have
grasped this TRUTH o. M hce ID
THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS:
Their Care and Cure and the General
Management of the Body, by /. Fl.
Hirschfeld, NJ D. 12mo, cloth, price SIPS
net. by mail $1.39. Funk & Wagnalls
Company, New York, Publishers.