Woman physiologically considered : as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce : with an appendix, containing notes and additions, edited by an American physician / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered : as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce : with an appendix, containing notes and additions, edited by an American physician / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERMARRIAGE, Or the mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health, and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease, and insanity, from others : demonstrated by delineations cf the structures and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities which each parent in every pair be- stows on children, in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals. illustrated by drawings of parents and progeny, by alexander Walker, author of Woman, Beauty, &c. Se- COND edition, 12mo. FROM THE BOSTON MORNING POST. Until within a sliort time past, the people of this country have entirely neglected the study of physiology. Every attempt that was made to call public attention to that important science, was either frowned down by a spirit of false delicacy, or was ridiculed by critics of every grade. A more healthy slate of public opinion, however, is beginning to prevail in regard to the subject. People now admit that the human body is really deserving a little consideration—that a knowledge of llie laws by which it is governed, in order that they may not suffer from violations of them, is of some importance. We hope that this state of feeling will be increased, and we know nothing more likely to lead to such a result, than the publication of popularized works treating on the science. A few such works h vve already been published, and the one now before us may be placed at their head, whether we consider the importance of its subject, or the erudite and dignified manner in which that subject is handled. It cannot be dis- puted, that no subject can be of more im])ortance than that of inter- marriage. If we look into the history of some of the European na- tions, we shall find that the most remarkable cause of their deteriora- tion, had its origin in a violation, on the part of their leading classes, of those laws which should regulate intermarriage. Take the Span- ish nobility, for instance. Tlie time was when they ranked with the best in Europe, but where arc they now, and what have they been for two centuries past ? Verily, both as regards physical and intellectual