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.
Date:
[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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    PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. In 1S53, near New York, in the second year of the American Hydropathic Institute, while giving daily lectures to a class of male and female students on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hydro- therapeutics, I found the need of such a manual of health as I wrote in the following pages, written for those I was then teach- ing, aided by Mrs. Nichols, some record of whose labours for health may be found in A Woman's Work in Water Cure and Sanitary Education. This book soon found a very wide cir- culation. I believe fully a hundred thousand copies have been printed, and it has found its way to the most distant corners 01 the world. Large numbers have been brought to England. Last year I received a letter from a missionary in the Fiji Islands, from which I copy a few sentences:— I bought 'Esoteric Anthropology' in Sidney when I was preparing to come down to these islands as a missionary, some years ago. That book 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. Two years ago, I sent an order to America for another copy, that I might supply a friend with it, and received a new edition, called by a new title, The Mysteries of Man.' I am thoroughly satisfied with the book—but there is one point I write to ask you about, in which the last edition differs very materially from the lirst. In the portion concerning the treatment of natural labour, you say in the new edition :— 'When the delivery is completed, I take the vagina syringe and throw a pint and a half of tepid water,' &c. Now in the first edition, you recommend cold water for that purpose, as also does Mrs. Nichols in her Experience [Woman's Work.] litis is a very important point, and may mean life or death, I there- fore write to ask you. ■•Doctors are scarce in Fiji. Nearly two years ago, my wife