Popular drugs : their use and abuse / by Sydney Hillier, M. D.

  • Hillier, S. (Sydney), 1866-
Date:
[1910?]
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Credit: Popular drugs : their use and abuse / by Sydney Hillier, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the maternal instinct is suppressed, and the children are in many instances brought up, during the most impressionable period of their lives, without the intimate relationship which should exist between mother and child. Left to the care of the gover- ness or the servants, the children suffer for want of that affectionate parental control, which is so essen- tial to them. The limiting of families, which is so common now, is, to a great extent, the outcome of the same causes, and is not without its evil results in the State and the individual. This is an age of “ make-belief.” VVe are slaves to ostentation, the dupes of a system that impels everyone to appear flourishing and prosperous. We dare not show the white flag in this combat. “Nothing succeeds like success ; ” and an assumption of prosperity goes far towards assuring an income. This pose of success is the cause in many instances of that evil, but very easy, practice of living above one’s income. All this fret and stress produce worry, and worry, if prolonged, means a shattered nervous system. Certain sexual causes must not be overlooked. “ It would not be right if I did not express my opinion that the tendency of late marriages in men, the great limitation in the number of children, and the distaste of the mothers to nurse their children.
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