The conjugal relationships : as regards personal health and heredity well-being, practically treated / by Augustus K. Gardner.

  • Augustus Kinsley Gardner
Date:
1892
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Credit: The conjugal relationships : as regards personal health and heredity well-being, practically treated / by Augustus K. Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing; the complexion cloudy; the physiognomy languish]'ugly expressive and very mobile. It is rare that they have not some peculiar traits ; their walk is sometimes nonchalant, sometimes quick, dashing, precipitate; they speak of every- thing with warmth, with enthusiasm, and even with a kind of exaltation, with them akin to exaggeration of sentiment, which at times gives them an air of real inspiration.” Such is the sad state of health which modern civilisation has created for the greater number of the “ women of the world ” by the incense offered to them and turning them from their proper direction. A veritable plague is to-day scourging the society of France, spreading ruin in its families. It is, to use a consecrated expression, “ the un- bridled luxury of women.” If Maver can say this of industrious France, what shall we say of the modern lady of other countries. The sensuous intemperance is sufficiently to be reprobated when it's aliment is drawn from vigour of physical energy, the heightened imagination,
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