Plain home talk about the human system : the habits of men and women, the causes and prevention of disease, our sexual relations and social natures : embracing medical common sense applied to causes, prevention, and cure of chronic diseases, the natural relations of men and women to each other, society, love, marriage, parentage, etc., etc. / by Edward B. Foote.

  • Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Plain home talk about the human system : the habits of men and women, the causes and prevention of disease, our sexual relations and social natures : embracing medical common sense applied to causes, prevention, and cure of chronic diseases, the natural relations of men and women to each other, society, love, marriage, parentage, etc., etc. / by Edward B. Foote. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    assistance are given to those who need it; and on the occasion of these meetings, the male members connected with it, go forth to the haunts of those whom they wish to reach, and invite them to come in. During the day-time, also, kind and Christian women attend at the rooms and offer advice, sympathy, and assistance to such as seek it. Of course he remarked, when aid was sought to advance the scheme, it was met with many objections. ' It was hopeless ; these women cannot be reclaimed;' 'they do not wish it;' 'it is danger- ous to the morals of those who attempt it;' ' tiie work is too great;' 'the subject is too delicate a one to meddle with;' etc., etc. But said he, such objections were controverted and overthrown by irrefutable facts. Scores and hundreds of these women had a desire to reform, if only the way is open. The task of reformation is diffi- cult, but not impossible. Not only the experience of the members of the society, but the records of similar institutions prove this. The speaker gave some statistics of the results of six years' opera- tions of The Midnight Mission in London, by whose influence and aid nearly 3,000 women had been rescued from a life of crime. He spoke of the many good qualities which these women, as a class, are known to possess; showed the magnitude of the good which might be wrought; and closed with a thrilling appeal to the men and women present, to give what aid was in their power for the further- ance of so great a work. Such associations ought to be cordially promoted by every woman, and by multiplying them they would do a vast amount of good; but when it is considered how many in London alone, maintain them- selves by prostitution, and that in six years, but 3,000 have been res- cued, it is readily seen how primarily essential it is to eradicate the causes which drive women to a life of degradation. The cure is im- portant, and should not be neglected ; but prevention is the main thing, and our system of society must prove itself a failure if it can- not ultimately succeed in supplying a prevention which will prove radically effectual. Unhappy Marriage. This contributes to destroy the tone and vigor of both the ner- vous and vascular fluids. The mind, chafing in the galling fet- ters which bind it to an uncongenial companionship, almost forgets its corporeal dependency, and consumes within itself the nervo-