Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females, and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte.

  • Pulte, J. H. (Joseph Hippolyt), 1811-1884.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Woman's medical guide : containing essays on the physical, moral and educational development of females, and the homeopathic treatment of their diseases in all periods of life : together with directions for the remedial use of water and gymnastics / by J.H. Pulte. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    are familiar and pleasant visitors at the gatherings of the people. It may be truly said, our lecture- rooms continue to dor what the school-rooms have had no time to finish; and an intelligent, well- educated people, like ours, will pursue its studies, in spite of old-fashioned barriers and scientific cliques; having once imbibed the thirst for know- ledge, it cannot be restrained in continuing to satisfy its cravings. Another question, however, might be raised, as regards the propriety of treating in books of subjects, so delicate and private, that the modesty of the female sex naturally would shrink from their perusal. But it is an old adage, and a very true one: To the pure all things are pure ; where the heart does not already yearn after the evil, and the imagination is not already perverted, finding her sole delight in the contemplation of impure pic- tures, a truthful and severe exposition of the laws governing the female system, cannot intoxicate the senses or degrade the moral taste; on the contrary, must ennoble the impulses of the heart by increasing the knowledge of laws and destinies in connection with the immense responsibilities, thus given to the choice of each one's judgment. Beside, we are convinced that it is possible to treat of the laws of nature within the limits of perfect decorum; and this without suppressing the truth or becoming unintelligible.