The elements of social science, or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion : an exposition of the true cause and only cure of the three primary social evils: poverty, prositution, and celibacy / by a doctor of medicine.

George Drysdale

Date:: 1875

Credit: The elements of social science, or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion : an exposition of the true cause and only cure of the three primary social evils: poverty, prositution, and celibacy / by a doctor of medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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