INDEX.
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PAGE.
Abortion,271
Abortion, results of,280
Accidental pregnancy,236
Adaptation to marriage,127
Advice to boys,468
Advice to girls,499
Advice to boys and girls,501
Afterbirth,68
Amativeness,177
Amaurosis,369
Amenorrhoea,95
Animalcula,26
Ante-natal influences,105
Antediluvian wickedness,286
Bad language,461
Bad company,458
Bad books,462
Bad books, influence of,463
Bad books, effects of,486
Balls, demoralizing effect of,204
Beauty, how to develop,473
Beer-drinking by nursing mothers,71
Beer, evil effects of,467
Betrothal of infants,138
Birth, changes at,69
Bladder, irritation of,203
Boarding-schools, danger of,495
Books, bad,186
Books, obscene,187
Brain, male and female,42
Breasts,70
Breasts, atrophy of the,374
Breath, causes of foul,89
"Bundling,"140
Cancer, cause of,253
Cancer, of the womb,374
Castration,114
Catamenia,81
Causes of unchastity,181
Cells, development of,104
Chastity,174
Chlorosis,95, 343
Cider, evil effects of,467
Circumcision,113, 410
Civilization, perverting influence of,181
Classification of living creatures,27
Clitoris,57, 73
Coitus,57
Colds, how to prevent,84
Colostrum,70
Conception, prevention of,250
Condiments,210, 292
Conjugal onanism,250
Consumption,365
Consumption, cause of,230, 435
Continence,205
Continence, male,256
Continence, not injurious,205
Continence, difficulty of,208
Continence, helps to,209
Conversation, trifling,503
Copulation,57
Courtship,136
Courtship, evils of,137
Courtships, long,140
Crime, source of,107
Crime, cause of,454
Criminality hereditary,107
Critical period, a,482
Dancing,196
Day-dreams,177
Desirable qualities, how to produce,113
Development,59, 477
Development, premature,78
Development in higher animals,61
Diet,390
Diet, influence on chastity,182
Disease,301
Disease, obscure causes of,376
Diurnal emissions,359
Divorce, loose laws of,153
Dozing, danger of,212
Dreams,396
Dreams, how to control,397
Dress and sensuality,190
Dressing unhealthfully,89
Dress reform,193
Drinks, stimulating,392
Drugs,411
Dwarfs,431
Dysmenorrhoea,94
Dyspepsia,366
Dyspepsia, cause of,434
Early associations,314
Early marriage,126
Early training,310
Early training, lack of,295
Early decline, cause of,481
Egypt a hot-bed of vice,286
Electricity,407
Embryo,63
Embryo, simple structure of,64
Embryo, stages of growth of,65
Emissions, effect of,356
Emissions, internal,361
Emissions, nocturnal,353
Endurance of women,43
Epilepsy,344
Epilepsy, cause of,244
Evil habits,427
Excesses, marital,216
Excesses, results of,225
Excesses, effects of on wives,231
Excesses, effects of on husbands,226
Extra-uterine pregnancy,97
Eyes, weakness of,369
Fallopian tube,74
False delicacy,92
False training,473
Fashion,294
Fashion, and vice,192
Fashionable dissipation,478
Fecundation,52
Fecundation, in flowers,53
Fecundation, modes of,55
Fecundation, in fishes,56
Fecundation, in reptiles,56
Fecundation, in higher animals,56
Fecundation, in hermaphrodites,59
Feeling apparatus,425
Females, imperfect,58
Female organs,73
Female organs of flowers,48
Fetus, respiration of,67
Fetus, influenced through the blood,67
Fishes, development in,60
Fishes, fecundation in,56
Filthy dreams,179
Filthy talkers,180
Flirtation, evils of,143
Flirtation, youthful,144
Flirtation, childish,487
Flowers, polygamous,47
Flowers, female organs of,48
Flowers, fecundation in,53
Fomentations,405
Foods, stimulating,392
Force, life,29
Functions of life,30
General debility,365
Generation, laws of,219
Generation, physiological,112
Generation, spontaneous,31
Generation, ancient theory of,32
Gestation, duration of,66
Girlhood,471
Girls, a chapter for,470
Girls, causes which lead astray,484
Girls, how ruined,493
Gluttony,292
Habit, power of,496
Health essential to beauty,474
Health hints,88, 93
Heart disease,367
Heredity,102
Heredity, laws of,243
Heredity, of disease,109
Heredity, of crime,107
Hermaphrodism,36
Hermaphrodites, fecundation in,59
Hip bath,93
Human machine, the,423
Human wrecks,437
Human form,474
Human buds,476
Husbands, improvident,170
Hybrids,100
Hymen,73
Hysteria,95, 343
Hysteria, causes of,96, 375
Idiocy,371
Idiocy, cause of,433
Idleness,189
Ignorance,300
Ill-health of girls, causes of,472
Illustrative cases,437
Imbecility,371
Impotence,363, 410
Impotence, not produced by continence,207
Infanticide,271
Infanticide, among various nations,273
Infant intoxication,70
Infants, betrothal of,138
Insanity,370
Insanity, cause of,447, 490
Instinct, lessons from,220
Instinct, a safe guide,224
Internal emissions,361
Intestinal worms,202
Juke family, the,108
Labia, the,73
Labor,68
Lacing,90
Law of heredity applied,126
Law of sex,101
Legalized murder,233
Legalized vice,309
Leucorrhoea,346
Libidinous blood,290
Licentious worship,287
Licentiousness, results of,302
Life,25
Life, beginning of,52
Life, force,29
Life, origin of,33
Life, modern modes of,203
Life, when it begins,262
Life, uterine,66
Literature, poisonous,189
Living beings,25
Love, perverted,178
Lust, effect upon child,111
Male organs,71
Male continence,256
Mammary glands,70
Marriage,124, 402
Marriage, evils of ill-mated,131
Marriage, effect of late,132
Marriage, experimental,141
Marriage, forbidden,155
Marriage, of cousins,163
Marriage, of criminals,164
Marriage, of paupers,167
Marriage, but not love,235
Marriage, customs of different nations,125
Marital excesses,216
Marital rights,234
Masturbation,315, 428
Masturbation, treatment of,378
Masturbation, prevention of,378
Masturbation, effects in females,373
Masturbation, effects on offspring,376
Masturbation, self-helps to cure,385
Menopause, the,82
Menorrhagia,91
Menses,81
Menstrual period, duration of,82
Menstruation,81
Menstruation, nature of,83
Mental unchastity,174
Mental culture,313
Milk, influence of upon children,70
Mind, cause of unbalanced,129
Mormonism,148
Monsters,99
Mock piety,338
Moderation,248
Modesty,488
Mothers, a warning to,201
Mothers, their work,479
Moral contagion,459
Moving apparatus,425
Multiple births,98
Navel, the,68
Nervous diseases,368
Nervous debility, treatment of,378
Nocturnal emissions,353
Novel-reading,486
Nursing,70
Nutrition,30
Nutritive apparatus,425
Nymphæ, the,73
Nymphomania,301
Objects of life,423
Obscene books,187
Obscenity,462
Oneida community, the,258
Organized beings,28
Organization,28
Ovary,51
Ovum,51
Ovum, discharge of,83
Ovum, size of,52
Ovum, expulsion of from ovary,74
Ovum, union of the, with the zoösperm,57
Pangenesis, doctrine of,103
Paralysis,369
Parturition,68
Parturition, painless,68
Passion, inherited,121
Passions, how excited,183
Pedestrianism,40
Pernicious books, influence of,297
Penis, the,56, 71
Physical differences in sex,39
Piles,350
Pimples,342
Placenta,67
Plants, sex of,37
Pictures, vile,464
Poisonous literature,189
Polyandry,152
Polygamous flowers,47
Polygamy,145
Polygamy, defense of,148
Polygamy, exposed,149
Polygamy, of great men,152
Precocity,77
Precocity, sexual,117
Precocity, indications of,119
Pregnancy,62
Pregnancy, duration of,66
Pregnancy, extra-uterine,97
Pregnancy, indulgence during,241
Premature development,78
Premature decay,419
Prevention of conception,250
Priapism,350
Prostate gland,72
Prostate gland, enlargement of the,349
Prostitution,400
Prostitution, in Greece,287
Pruritis,374
Puberty,74
Puberty, premature,75
Puberty, influence of diet on,76
Puberty, changes at,79
Puberty, influence of climate on,75
Pudenda, the,73
Purifying apparatus,425
Quacks,362, 412
Race degeneration, cause of,436
Religion, help of,213
Religious novels,297
Religious insanity,371
Reproduction,31, 424, 476
Reproduction, elements of,45
Reproduction, in polyps,58
Reproduction, anatomy of,71
Reproduction, curious modes of,57
Reproduction, in the honey bee,58
Reproduction, in lower animals,218
Reproductive organs,71
Reproductive functions,217
Reproductive apparatus,426
Reproductive elements, union of,57
Reptiles, fecundation in,56
Reptiles, development in,60
Respiration in woman,44
Respiration of the fetus,67
Results of abortion,280
Roman emperors, licentiousness of,288
Satyriasis,124
Scrotum, the,71
Secret vice,428
Secret vice, evidences of,481
Secret vice, prevalence of,480
Secret vice, terrible effects of,480
Self-abuse,315, 428
Self-abuse, causes of,321, 487
Self-abuse, effects of,437
Self-abuse, the signs of,331
Self-abuse, results of,347
Self-abuse, treatment of,378
Self-abuse, not a modern vice,319
Self-abuse, physical causes of,329
Self-abuse, how to cure the habit of,382
Self-control,311
Self-pollution,428
Self-murder,431
Seminal fluid, the,51, 72
Senility,420
Senile children,134
Senile sexuality,123
Sentimental books,485
Sentimental young women,190
Sentimental literature, influence of,296
Sex,35
Sex, in plants,37
Sex, in animals,38
Sex, law of,101
Sex, of fetus,102
Sexual differences,38
Sexual organs of plants,46
Sexual organs of animals,48
Sexual relations, the,116
Sexual precocity,117
Sexual precocity, causes of,122
Sexual activity, the limit of,124
Shaker views,258
Sitz-baths,404
Sleeping,393
Social lepers,146
Social evil, the,284
Social evil, causes of the,290
Social evil, cure of the,308
Solitary vice,315
Solitary vice, alarming prevalence of,316
Solitary vice, unsuspected cause of,318
Spaying,115
Spermatozoa,48
Spermatozoa, size of,50
Spermatorrhoea,353
Spinal irritation,369
Sterility,374
Stimulants the cause of self-abuse,330
Stricture,348
Suicide, cause of,453
"Tarrying,"140
Tea and coffee,292
Tea and coffee, bad effects of,467
Testicles, position of,48
Testicles, wasting of,352
Temperaments,166
Thinking apparatus,425
Thoughts, evil,465
Throat disease, cause of,229
Time to marry,125
Tobacco,292
Tobacco, evil effects of,467
Tobacco, grave charges against,185
Twins,98
Umbilical cord,67
Unchaste conversation,179
Unchastity, causes of,181
Unchastity, of the ancients,274
Unchastity, physical causes of,201
Unconsidered murders,260
Uterus,61
Uterine life,66
Uterine douche,93
Uterine disease,233, 373
Uterine gestation,62
Urinary diseases,349
Urethra, the,72
Vagina, the,56, 74
Varicocele,352
Vegetable husbands,47
Vice legalized,309
Vicious companions,484
Vital force, definition of,29
Vital organs of man and woman,43
Vision, dimness of,369
Vulva, the,73
Waltz, the, its sensuality,199
Weak backs,339
Wine, evil effects of,467
Wives, on trial,139
Wives, sale of, among the Russians,138
Woman, servitude of,263
Woman, her responsibility,270
Woman's rights,264
Women, Indian,86
Women, Hebrew,87
Womb, cancer of the,374
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