Dear Sir: I have just completed a careful reading of your advance sheets of “The Physical Life of Woman,” and I unhesitatingly pronounce it an admirable work, and one especially needed at this time. The book is written in a chaste, elevated, and vigorous style, is replete with instruction indispensable to the welfare and happiness of woman, and should be placed in the hands of every mature maiden and matron in our land.
H. N. EASTMAN.
EDITORIAL FROM PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER.
It is a singular fact, that in this country, most of the works on medical and hygienic matters have been written by irregular practitioners in order to help on its legs some ism or pathy of their own. The public is really desirous of information about the great questions of life and health. It buys whatever is offered it, and cannot tell of course the tares from the wheat. In fact, as we have said, there has been very little wheat offered it. Scientific physicians do not seem to have taken the pains in this country, as in Germany, to expand sound medical information among the people.
We therefore welcome all the more warmly a work which, under any circumstances, would command our praise, advance sheets of which are now before us. The author is Dr. George H. Napheys, of this city, well known to all the readers of the “Reporter” as a constant contributor to its pages for a number of years, a close student of therapeutics, and a pleasing writer. The title of the book is “The Physical Life of Woman: advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother.” It is a complete manual of information for women, in their peculiar conditions and relations, married and single.
The style is simple, agreeable, and eminently proper and delicate, conspicuously so when treating of such difficult topics to handle in a popular book, yet so necessary to be handled, as the marital relations of husband and wife, the consummation of marriage, etc.
We do not doubt that this work will find as large a sale both in and out of the profession in this country, as the works of Bock and Klencke in Germany, and of Tilt and Chavasse in England.