Esoteric anthropology (the mysteries of man) : a comprehensive and confidential treatise on the structure, functions, passional attractions, and perversions, true and false physical and social conditions, and the most intimate relations of men and women anatomical, physiological, pathological, therapeutical, and obstetrical hygienic and hydropthic from the American stereotype edition, revised and rewritten / by T.L. Nichols.

  • Nichols, Thomas Low, 1815-1901.
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[1877?]
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Credit: Esoteric anthropology (the mysteries of man) : a comprehensive and confidential treatise on the structure, functions, passional attractions, and perversions, true and false physical and social conditions, and the most intimate relations of men and women anatomical, physiological, pathological, therapeutical, and obstetrical hygienic and hydropthic from the American stereotype edition, revised and rewritten / by T.L. Nichols. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    health and happiness, and the causes of disease and misery. Specially and very thoroughly it treats of the relations of men and women to each other of the nature and uses of marriage, and the laws of a wise and healthy reproduction. It shows low the two sexes must he related to each other to insure painless maternity and leal thy offspring. It teaches, in short, the elements of human progress and well- ing. The following were among the testimonials to the value of Esoteric Anthropo- logy ' on its first publication in America:— Dr. IT. if. Stevens, of Forest Cit'i Water Cure.— I look upon it, after a careful perusal, as the most wonderful book ever written. It makes a new era in literature and social life. Dr. E. Dodge, Oswego, New York— This book contains more that is weighty in fact and sound in philosophy-more that is useful in medical science and effective in medical art—more that is purlficative and elevative of man, than any one wurk in volumes few or many, that has ever graced the Librarit Medicate of civilisa- tion. AlonzoLeu-it, Esq., the Poet and Historian.— My judgment is, that this is not only the best book on the subject on which it treats, but the only true and satis- factory one ever written. The testimony of English readers, since the publication of the carefully revised and partly re-wntten English edition, has not been less emphatic :— A Patient at Mattock.— If I could have seen and read such a work thirty years ago, it would have been priceless to me. [This is the testimony of many others ] A Gentleman/mm Manchester.— I have read your book, ' Esoteric Anthropo- logy, with very great satisfaction, and there is one part of it whose importance cannot be over-rated, viz., the chapters on sexual relations ; and considering the consequences of ignorance, the importance of affording reliable information on those subjects seems greater than in any other branch of sanitary science A Misti'snary in the Fiji Islands writes:— I bought ' Esoteric Anthropology' in Sydney, Australia, when I was preparing to come down to these Islands as a missionary some years ago. That hook I have found to be a most excellent com panion in this out-of-the-way place, and have many a time thanked you for it. I vn thoroughly satisfied with the book. Doctors are scarce in Fiji. Nearly two yeare ago my wife was confined, and, as I was doctor, monthly nurse, and e'very- thing else, I followed the plan I thought best, and that was the plan of your Eso- teric Anthropology. All went on well, and I have spoken of your plan of treat- ment to my friends. A Glatgmo Surgeon write* in LTv man Nature Esoteric Anthropology' ■3 one of the best popular works on physiology that we have seen. Dr. Nichols writes with frankness on subjects usually shunned by popular writers, but igno- rance concerning which has led to incalculable misery. He is never dull nor ob- scure; and subjects often made repulsive by drv technicalities under his treatment become attractive and fascinating. It is a muttum in parvo of medical science FORTY YEARS OP AMERICAN LIFE. This was the first book Dr. Nichols published in England (edition of 18C4 in 2 ■nAa. fivo), and it was widely and well reviewed and noticed, as will be seen by the following extracts :— Dr. Nichols has broken new ground—ground that has been little moro than touched by any of his predecessors— and given us an exceedingly clear, pleasant, and varied scries of sketches of American life and manners, surprisingly free from the cu.sU.mary defects of such works. No book wc have ever read gave us anything so clear and vivid an idea of American life. As n description of American homes', and Americans at home, this book is the best, we have seen.—Saturday Review. The descriptions of life in New England forty years ago, and in New York at tlio present day, arc really admirable. His narrative has that greatest of charms, that he entirely sympathises in his heart even with the weaknesses which his intellect confesses. Indeed, the early chapters of tho first volume, in which he describes ',he SUte of New Hampshire during his boyhood, are perfectly idylic. In conclu- lion, we heartily recommend Dr. Nlfthou' book. It is thoroughly nmusing