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A BOOK
OF
Medical Discourses
IN TWO PARTS.
PART FIRST:
TREATING OF THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF INFANTILE BOWEL COMPLAINTS, FROM BIRTH TO THE CLOSE OF THE TEETHING PERIOD, OR TILL AFTER THE FIFTH YEAR.
PART SECOND:
CONTAINING MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE AND GROWTH OF BEINGS; THE BEGINNING OF WOMANHOOD; ALSO, THE CAUSE, PREVENTION, AND CURE OF MANY OF THE MOST DISTRESSING COMPLAINTS OF WOMEN, AND YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES.

BY

REBECCA CRUMPLER, M. D.

BOSTON:

CASHMAN, KEATING & CO., PRINTERS.

Fayette Court, 603 Washington St.

1883.

Copyright 1883,

By Rebecca Crumpler, M.D.

DEDICATION.

TO

MOTHERS, NURSES,

AND ALL WHO MAY DESIRE TO MITIGATE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE HUMAN RACE,

THIS BOOK

IS PRAYERFULLY OFFERED.