Woman and her diseases : from the cradle to the grave : adapted exclusively to her instruction in the physiology of her system and all the diseases of her critical periods / by Edward H. Dixon.

  • Edward H. Dixon
Date:
1847
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    superior classes to be balanced by the more active physical exertion of the lower, as an incentive to a natural and healthful training of the body, the hap- piest results would follow. The constitution would be strengthened; and, as a consequence, the mind would become more susceptible to a healthful impression, from an exposition of its natural laws. The inevitable and almost universal result of our city system of physical education, is the morbid devel- opment of the nervous system; which, added to a plan of mental training equally absurd, leaves the mind in a state infinitely removed from that in which it can be supposed capable of a healthful reception of natural truth. In another treatise we have traced the effect of these great errors, in the development of a precocious animal temperament; and we should have transferred the two concluding chapters of that work to this volume, were we not obliged to conform so far to a state of things we deplore, as to withhold an announcement adapted only to a purer and more philosophical state of educa- tion than exists amongst us. In such an emergency, we shall endeavour to avoid shocking the prejudices of the reader, whilst we will indulge the hope, that a plain and truthful exposition of the laws of her being, will exert a happy and en- nobling influence upon her and her children. We shall avoid technicalities, as far as possible, and also all the more abstruse explanations of disease; because it is not to be supposed that they could be communi- cated with any advantage to any other than a medical mind.
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