INDEX.

PAGE.
Abortion,[271]
Abortion, results of,[280]
Accidental pregnancy,[236]
Adaptation to marriage,[127]
Advice to boys,[468]
Advice to girls,[499]
Advice to boys and girls,[501]
Afterbirth,[68]
Amativeness,[177]
Amaurosis,[369]
Amenorrhoea,[95]
Animalcula,[26]
Ante-natal influences,[105]
Antediluvian wickedness,[286]
Bad language,[461]
Bad company,[458]
Bad books,[462]
Bad books, influence of,[463]
Bad books, effects of,[486]
Balls, demoralizing effect of,[204]
Beauty, how to develop,[473]
Beer-drinking by nursing mothers,[71]
Beer, evil effects of,[467]
Betrothal of infants,[138]
Birth, changes at,[69]
Bladder, irritation of,[203]
Boarding-schools, danger of,[495]
Books, bad,[186]
Books, obscene,[187]
Brain, male and female,[42]
Breasts,[70]
Breasts, atrophy of the,[374]
Breath, causes of foul,[89]
"Bundling,"[140]
Cancer, cause of,[253]
Cancer, of the womb,[374]
Castration,[114]
Catamenia,[81]
Causes of unchastity,[181]
Cells, development of,[104]
Chastity,[174]
Chlorosis,[95], [343]
Cider, evil effects of,[467]
Circumcision,[113], [410]
Civilization, perverting influence of,[181]
Classification of living creatures,[27]
Clitoris,[57], [73]
Coitus,[57]
Colds, how to prevent,[84]
Colostrum,[70]
Conception, prevention of,[250]
Condiments,[210], [292]
Conjugal onanism,[250]
Consumption,[365]
Consumption, cause of,[230], [435]
Continence,[205]
Continence, male,[256]
Continence, not injurious,[205]
Continence, difficulty of,[208]
Continence, helps to,[209]
Conversation, trifling,[503]
Copulation,[57]
Courtship,[136]
Courtship, evils of,[137]
Courtships, long,[140]
Crime, source of,[107]
Crime, cause of,[454]
Criminality hereditary,[107]
Critical period, a,[482]
Dancing,[196]
Day-dreams,[177]
Desirable qualities, how to produce,[113]
Development,[59], [477]
Development, premature,[78]
Development in higher animals,[61]
Diet,[390]
Diet, influence on chastity,[182]
Disease,[301]
Disease, obscure causes of,[376]
Diurnal emissions,[359]
Divorce, loose laws of,[153]
Dozing, danger of,[212]
Dreams,[396]
Dreams, how to control,[397]
Dress and sensuality,[190]
Dressing unhealthfully,[89]
Dress reform,[193]
Drinks, stimulating,[392]
Drugs,[411]
Dwarfs,[431]
Dysmenorrhoea,[94]
Dyspepsia,[366]
Dyspepsia, cause of,[434]
Early associations,[314]
Early marriage,[126]
Early training,[310]
Early training, lack of,[295]
Early decline, cause of,[481]
Egypt a hot-bed of vice,[286]
Electricity,[407]
Embryo,[63]
Embryo, simple structure of,[64]
Embryo, stages of growth of,[65]
Emissions, effect of,[356]
Emissions, internal,[361]
Emissions, nocturnal,[353]
Endurance of women,[43]
Epilepsy,[344]
Epilepsy, cause of,[244]
Evil habits,[427]
Excesses, marital,[216]
Excesses, results of,[225]
Excesses, effects of on wives,[231]
Excesses, effects of on husbands,[226]
Extra-uterine pregnancy,[97]
Eyes, weakness of,[369]
Fallopian tube,[74]
False delicacy,[92]
False training,[473]
Fashion,[294]
Fashion, and vice,[192]
Fashionable dissipation,[478]
Fecundation,[52]
Fecundation, in flowers,[53]
Fecundation, modes of,[55]
Fecundation, in fishes,[56]
Fecundation, in reptiles,[56]
Fecundation, in higher animals,[56]
Fecundation, in hermaphrodites,[59]
Feeling apparatus,[425]
Females, imperfect,[58]
Female organs,[73]
Female organs of flowers,[48]
Fetus, respiration of,[67]
Fetus, influenced through the blood,[67]
Fishes, development in,[60]
Fishes, fecundation in,[56]
Filthy dreams,[179]
Filthy talkers,[180]
Flirtation, evils of,[143]
Flirtation, youthful,[144]
Flirtation, childish,[487]
Flowers, polygamous,[47]
Flowers, female organs of,[48]
Flowers, fecundation in,[53]
Fomentations,[405]
Foods, stimulating,[392]
Force, life,[29]
Functions of life,[30]
General debility,[365]
Generation, laws of,[219]
Generation, physiological,[112]
Generation, spontaneous,[31]
Generation, ancient theory of,[32]
Gestation, duration of,[66]
Girlhood,[471]
Girls, a chapter for,[470]
Girls, causes which lead astray,[484]
Girls, how ruined,[493]
Gluttony,[292]
Habit, power of,[496]
Health essential to beauty,[474]
Health hints,[88], [93]
Heart disease,[367]
Heredity,[102]
Heredity, laws of,[243]
Heredity, of disease,[109]
Heredity, of crime,[107]
Hermaphrodism,[36]
Hermaphrodites, fecundation in,[59]
Hip bath,[93]
Human machine, the,[423]
Human wrecks,[437]
Human form,[474]
Human buds,[476]
Husbands, improvident,[170]
Hybrids,[100]
Hymen,[73]
Hysteria,[95], [343]
Hysteria, causes of,[96], [375]
Idiocy,[371]
Idiocy, cause of,[433]
Idleness,[189]
Ignorance,[300]
Ill-health of girls, causes of,[472]
Illustrative cases,[437]
Imbecility,[371]
Impotence,[363], [410]
Impotence, not produced by continence,[207]
Infanticide,[271]
Infanticide, among various nations,[273]
Infant intoxication,[70]
Infants, betrothal of,[138]
Insanity,[370]
Insanity, cause of,[447], [490]
Instinct, lessons from,[220]
Instinct, a safe guide,[224]
Internal emissions,[361]
Intestinal worms,[202]
Juke family, the,[108]
Labia, the,[73]
Labor,[68]
Lacing,[90]
Law of heredity applied,[126]
Law of sex,[101]
Legalized murder,[233]
Legalized vice,[309]
Leucorrhoea,[346]
Libidinous blood,[290]
Licentious worship,[287]
Licentiousness, results of,[302]
Life,[25]
Life, beginning of,[52]
Life, force,[29]
Life, origin of,[33]
Life, modern modes of,[203]
Life, when it begins,[262]
Life, uterine,[66]
Literature, poisonous,[189]
Living beings,[25]
Love, perverted,[178]
Lust, effect upon child,[111]
Male organs,[71]
Male continence,[256]
Mammary glands,[70]
Marriage,[124], [402]
Marriage, evils of ill-mated,[131]
Marriage, effect of late,[132]
Marriage, experimental,[141]
Marriage, forbidden,[155]
Marriage, of cousins,[163]
Marriage, of criminals,[164]
Marriage, of paupers,[167]
Marriage, but not love,[235]
Marriage, customs of different nations,[125]
Marital excesses,[216]
Marital rights,[234]
Masturbation,[315], [428]
Masturbation, treatment of,[378]
Masturbation, prevention of,[378]
Masturbation, effects in females,[373]
Masturbation, effects on offspring,[376]
Masturbation, self-helps to cure,[385]
Menopause, the,[82]
Menorrhagia,[91]
Menses,[81]
Menstrual period, duration of,[82]
Menstruation,[81]
Menstruation, nature of,[83]
Mental unchastity,[174]
Mental culture,[313]
Milk, influence of upon children,[70]
Mind, cause of unbalanced,[129]
Mormonism,[148]
Monsters,[99]
Mock piety,[338]
Moderation,[248]
Modesty,[488]
Mothers, a warning to,[201]
Mothers, their work,[479]
Moral contagion,[459]
Moving apparatus,[425]
Multiple births,[98]
Navel, the,[68]
Nervous diseases,[368]
Nervous debility, treatment of,[378]
Nocturnal emissions,[353]
Novel-reading,[486]
Nursing,[70]
Nutrition,[30]
Nutritive apparatus,[425]
Nymphæ, the,[73]
Nymphomania,[301]
Objects of life,[423]
Obscene books,[187]
Obscenity,[462]
Oneida community, the,[258]
Organized beings,[28]
Organization,[28]
Ovary,[51]
Ovum,[51]
Ovum, discharge of,[83]
Ovum, size of,[52]
Ovum, expulsion of from ovary,[74]
Ovum, union of the, with the zoösperm,[57]
Pangenesis, doctrine of,[103]
Paralysis,[369]
Parturition,[68]
Parturition, painless,[68]
Passion, inherited,[121]
Passions, how excited,[183]
Pedestrianism,[40]
Pernicious books, influence of,[297]
Penis, the,[56], [71]
Physical differences in sex,[39]
Piles,[350]
Pimples,[342]
Placenta,[67]
Plants, sex of,[37]
Pictures, vile,[464]
Poisonous literature,[189]
Polyandry,[152]
Polygamous flowers,[47]
Polygamy,[145]
Polygamy, defense of,[148]
Polygamy, exposed,[149]
Polygamy, of great men,[152]
Precocity,[77]
Precocity, sexual,[117]
Precocity, indications of,[119]
Pregnancy,[62]
Pregnancy, duration of,[66]
Pregnancy, extra-uterine,[97]
Pregnancy, indulgence during,[241]
Premature development,[78]
Premature decay,[419]
Prevention of conception,[250]
Priapism,[350]
Prostate gland,[72]
Prostate gland, enlargement of the,[349]
Prostitution,[400]
Prostitution, in Greece,[287]
Pruritis,[374]
Puberty,[74]
Puberty, premature,[75]
Puberty, influence of diet on,[76]
Puberty, changes at,[79]
Puberty, influence of climate on,[75]
Pudenda, the,[73]
Purifying apparatus,[425]
Quacks,[362], [412]
Race degeneration, cause of,[436]
Religion, help of,[213]
Religious novels,[297]
Religious insanity,[371]
Reproduction,[31], [424], [476]
Reproduction, elements of,[45]
Reproduction, in polyps,[58]
Reproduction, anatomy of,[71]
Reproduction, curious modes of,[57]
Reproduction, in the honey bee,[58]
Reproduction, in lower animals,[218]
Reproductive organs,[71]
Reproductive functions,[217]
Reproductive apparatus,[426]
Reproductive elements, union of,[57]
Reptiles, fecundation in,[56]
Reptiles, development in,[60]
Respiration in woman,[44]
Respiration of the fetus,[67]
Results of abortion,[280]
Roman emperors, licentiousness of,[288]
Satyriasis,[124]
Scrotum, the,[71]
Secret vice,[428]
Secret vice, evidences of,[481]
Secret vice, prevalence of,[480]
Secret vice, terrible effects of,[480]
Self-abuse,[315], [428]
Self-abuse, causes of,[321], [487]
Self-abuse, effects of,[437]
Self-abuse, the signs of,[331]
Self-abuse, results of,[347]
Self-abuse, treatment of,[378]
Self-abuse, not a modern vice,[319]
Self-abuse, physical causes of,[329]
Self-abuse, how to cure the habit of,[382]
Self-control,[311]
Self-pollution,[428]
Self-murder,[431]
Seminal fluid, the,[51], [72]
Senility,[420]
Senile children,[134]
Senile sexuality,[123]
Sentimental books,[485]
Sentimental young women,[190]
Sentimental literature, influence of,[296]
Sex,[35]
Sex, in plants,[37]
Sex, in animals,[38]
Sex, law of,[101]
Sex, of fetus,[102]
Sexual differences,[38]
Sexual organs of plants,[46]
Sexual organs of animals,[48]
Sexual relations, the,[116]
Sexual precocity,[117]
Sexual precocity, causes of,[122]
Sexual activity, the limit of,[124]
Shaker views,[258]
Sitz-baths,[404]
Sleeping,[393]
Social lepers,[146]
Social evil, the,[284]
Social evil, causes of the,[290]
Social evil, cure of the,[308]
Solitary vice,[315]
Solitary vice, alarming prevalence of,[316]
Solitary vice, unsuspected cause of,[318]
Spaying,[115]
Spermatozoa,[48]
Spermatozoa, size of,[50]
Spermatorrhoea,[353]
Spinal irritation,[369]
Sterility,[374]
Stimulants the cause of self-abuse,[330]
Stricture,[348]
Suicide, cause of,[453]
"Tarrying,"[140]
Tea and coffee,[292]
Tea and coffee, bad effects of,[467]
Testicles, position of,[48]
Testicles, wasting of,[352]
Temperaments,[166]
Thinking apparatus,[425]
Thoughts, evil,[465]
Throat disease, cause of,[229]
Time to marry,[125]
Tobacco,[292]
Tobacco, evil effects of,[467]
Tobacco, grave charges against,[185]
Twins,[98]
Umbilical cord,[67]
Unchaste conversation,[179]
Unchastity, causes of,[181]
Unchastity, of the ancients,[274]
Unchastity, physical causes of,[201]
Unconsidered murders,[260]
Uterus,[61]
Uterine life,[66]
Uterine douche,[93]
Uterine disease,[233], [373]
Uterine gestation,[62]
Urinary diseases,[349]
Urethra, the,[72]
Vagina, the,[56], [74]
Varicocele,[352]
Vegetable husbands,[47]
Vice legalized,[309]
Vicious companions,[484]
Vital force, definition of,[29]
Vital organs of man and woman,[43]
Vision, dimness of,[369]
Vulva, the,[73]
Waltz, the, its sensuality,[199]
Weak backs,[339]
Wine, evil effects of,[467]
Wives, on trial,[139]
Wives, sale of, among the Russians,[138]
Woman, servitude of,[263]
Woman, her responsibility,[270]
Woman's rights,[264]
Women, Indian,[86]
Women, Hebrew,[87]
Womb, cancer of the,[374]

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