Every woman's book, or, What is love? : containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family / [Richard Carlile].

  • Richard Carlile
Date:
1828
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Credit: Every woman's book, or, What is love? : containing most important instructions for the prudent regulation of the principle of love and the number of a family / [Richard Carlile]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chaste woman pines. This should not be. Love must be gratified, or its victim wastes and dies. Those young’ women who suffer from Chlorosis, and what is called the Green Sickness, suffer from nothing' but the disease of ungrati- fied love. Our best physicians have acknow¬ ledged this: and Dr. Cullen was wise and humane enough to recommend that such persons should indulge their passion of love. If this were the case, we should have more beautiful women, more healthy children, and more of every kind of happiness. One of our principal London physicians, in conversation on female disorder, observed to a lady, that in nine cases out of ten of sick- ness, and in five cases out of six of death from consumption, among young women, the proximate cause was the want of sexual com¬ merce. He added, the present state of society will not admit of my saying this publicly; but such is the fact, and it would be well if it were more generally known. Works are now publishing for instructions in the art of beauty. These will be useful: but it may be taken as a certainty, that the ground¬ work for the improvement of human beauty must be health and knowledge : health to give vigoui to the body—knowledge how to maintain it, and