The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor.

Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The female's guide and confidential advisor / by a Lady Doctor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FEMALE’S GUIDE And Confidential Adviser. By a Lady Doctor. ** Woman ! with thee, Creation’s fairest flower. Brightest and best, though last, Of God’s first gift to man, I now would hold converse: One confidential hour.” SlTOH,gentle reader, is all my intention in this short pamphlet. I desire that these few pages may some between ns as a link of perfect confidence. There are many bulky works written on the subject jl intend briefly to discuss ; but these are*not such as can be read by the unprofessional, and I desire mow, as a friend, to sit down and quietly talk sorer many of those points concerning which, as a irule, female modesty prevents a woman of delicate, I sensitive nature from applying to a medical man for that instruction and advice which she herself feels she so much needs. Let now these friendly j pages act as a confidential intermediary between us, as I endeavour to point out those essential > matters in female physiology and pathology which j I deem it wise for all females to know from the age of budding womanhood to advanced and ma- j ture age. It is especially in the earlier years of her * existence that the rising woman needs such advice from some confidential friend,., as she is j naturally ignorant of many of those things which should he to her well known for her own well-