Searchlights on HealthA COMPLETE SEXUAL SCIENCEReading editionChapter navigation149 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterA COMPLETE SEXUAL SCIENCEADVICE TO MAIDEN, WIFE, AND MOTHERKnowledge is Safety.The Beginning of Life.Health a Duty.Value of Reputation.Influence of Associates.Self-Control.Habit.A Good Name.The Mother's Influence.Home Power.To Young Women.Influence of Female Character.Personal Purity.How to Write All Kinds of Letters.HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER.FORMS OF SOCIAL LETTERS.FORMS OF LOVE LETTERS.Hints and Helps on Good Behavior at all Times and at all Places.Practical Rules on Table Manners.Social Duties.Politeness.Influence of Good Character.Family Government.CONVERSATION.The Care of the Person.Dress.Beauty.Sensible Helps to Beauty.How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth.Form and Deformity.The Care of the Hair.How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions.Love.The Power and Peculiarities of Love.Amativeness or Connubial Love.Love and Common-Sense.What Women Love in Men.What Men Love in Women.History of Marriage.Marriage.The Advantages of Wedlock.Disadvantages of Celibacy.Old Maids.When and Whom to Marry.Love-Spats.A Broken Heart.Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men.Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner.SAFE HINTS.Marriage Securities.Women Who Make the Best Wives.Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors.FIRST LOVE, DESERTION AND DIVORCE.Flirting and Its Dangers.A Word to Maidens.POPPING THE QUESTION.The Wedding.Advice to Newly Married Couples.Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties.How to Perpetuate the Honey-Moon.How to Be a Good Wife.How to Be a Good Husband.Cause of Family Troubles.Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure.The Improvement of Offspring.Too Many Children.Small Families and the Improvement of the Race.The Generative Organs.THE MYSTERIES OF THE FORMATION OF LIFE.PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION.VAGINAL CLEANLINESS.IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY.Producing Boys or Girls at Will.ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.The Murder of the Innocents.The Unwelcome Child.[2]Heredity and the Transmission of Diseases.Preparation for Maternity.Impregnation.Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy.Diseases of Pregnancy.MORNING SICKNESS.Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy.A Private Word to the Expectant MotherShall Pregnant Women Work?Words for Young Mothers.How to Have Beautiful Children.Education of the Child in the Womb.How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor.DURATION OF PREGNANCY.The Signs and Symptoms of Labor.Special Safeguards in Confinement.WHERE DID THE BABY COME FROM?Child Bearing Without Pain.Solemn Lessons for Parents.The Care of New-Born Infants.NURSING.FEEDING INFANTS.INFANTILE CONVULSIONS.Pains and Ills in Nursing.Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children.A Practical Rule for Feeding a Baby on Cow's Milk.HOW TO KEEP A BABY WELL.HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF YOUR INFANT DURING HOT WEATHER.Infant Teething.HOME TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.HOW TO TREAT CROUPDISEASES OF WOMEN.Falling of the Womb.Menstruation.Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them.Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy.Sensible Rules for the Nurse.Longevity.HOW TO APPLY AND USE HOT WATER IN ALL DISEASES.HOW TO USE COLD WATER.Practical Rules for Bathing.All the Different Kinds of Baths, and How to Prepare Them.Digestibility of Food.How to Cook for the Sick.Save the Girls.Save the Boys.The Inhumanities of Parents.Chastity and Purity of Character.Exciting the Passions in Children.Puberty, Virility and Hygienic Laws.Our Secret Sins.Physical and Moral Degeneracy.Immorality, Disease and Death.Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures.Startling Sins.The Prostitution of Men.The Road to Shame.The Curse of Manhood.A Private Talk to Young Men.Remedies for the Social Evil.The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.The Dangerous Vices.Lost Manhood Restored.Manhood Wrecked and Rescued.The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.Animal Magnetism.How to Read Character.Alphabetical Index.Previous chapter ←Front matterNext chapter →ADVICE TO MAIDEN, WIFE, AND MOTHERAll chapters and sections (149)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsA COMPLETE SEXUAL SCIENCEADVICE TO MAIDEN, WIFE, AND MOTHERKnowledge is Safety.The Beginning of Life.Health a Duty.Value of Reputation.Influence of Associates.Self-Control.Habit.A Good Name.The Mother's Influence.Home Power.To Young Women.Influence of Female Character.Personal Purity.How to Write All Kinds of Letters.HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER.FORMS OF SOCIAL LETTERS.FORMS OF LOVE LETTERS.Hints and Helps on Good Behavior at all Times and at all Places.Practical Rules on Table Manners.Social Duties.Politeness.Influence of Good Character.Family Government.CONVERSATION.The Care of the Person.Dress.Beauty.Sensible Helps to Beauty.How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth.Form and Deformity.The Care of the Hair.How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions.Love.The Power and Peculiarities of Love.Amativeness or Connubial Love.Love and Common-Sense.What Women Love in Men.What Men Love in Women.History of Marriage.Marriage.The Advantages of Wedlock.Disadvantages of Celibacy.Old Maids.When and Whom to Marry.Love-Spats.A Broken Heart.Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men.Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner.SAFE HINTS.Marriage Securities.Women Who Make the Best Wives.Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors.FIRST LOVE, DESERTION AND DIVORCE.Flirting and Its Dangers.A Word to Maidens.POPPING THE QUESTION.The Wedding.Advice to Newly Married Couples.Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties.How to Perpetuate the Honey-Moon.How to Be a Good Wife.How to Be a Good Husband.Cause of Family Troubles.Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure.The Improvement of Offspring.Too Many Children.Small Families and the Improvement of the Race.The Generative Organs.THE MYSTERIES OF THE FORMATION OF LIFE.PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION.VAGINAL CLEANLINESS.IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY.Producing Boys or Girls at Will.ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.The Murder of the Innocents.The Unwelcome Child.[2]Heredity and the Transmission of Diseases.Preparation for Maternity.Impregnation.Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy.Diseases of Pregnancy.MORNING SICKNESS.Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy.A Private Word to the Expectant MotherShall Pregnant Women Work?Words for Young Mothers.How to Have Beautiful Children.Education of the Child in the Womb.How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor.DURATION OF PREGNANCY.The Signs and Symptoms of Labor.Special Safeguards in Confinement.WHERE DID THE BABY COME FROM?Child Bearing Without Pain.Solemn Lessons for Parents.The Care of New-Born Infants.NURSING.FEEDING INFANTS.INFANTILE CONVULSIONS.Pains and Ills in Nursing.Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children.A Practical Rule for Feeding a Baby on Cow's Milk.HOW TO KEEP A BABY WELL.HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF YOUR INFANT DURING HOT WEATHER.Infant Teething.HOME TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.HOW TO TREAT CROUPDISEASES OF WOMEN.Falling of the Womb.Menstruation.Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them.Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy.Sensible Rules for the Nurse.Longevity.HOW TO APPLY AND USE HOT WATER IN ALL DISEASES.HOW TO USE COLD WATER.Practical Rules for Bathing.All the Different Kinds of Baths, and How to Prepare Them.Digestibility of Food.How to Cook for the Sick.Save the Girls.Save the Boys.The Inhumanities of Parents.Chastity and Purity of Character.Exciting the Passions in Children.Puberty, Virility and Hygienic Laws.Our Secret Sins.Physical and Moral Degeneracy.Immorality, Disease and Death.Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures.Startling Sins.The Prostitution of Men.The Road to Shame.The Curse of Manhood.A Private Talk to Young Men.Remedies for the Social Evil.The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.The Dangerous Vices.Lost Manhood Restored.Manhood Wrecked and Rescued.The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.Animal Magnetism.How to Read Character.Alphabetical Index.AND◇← Front matterADVICE TO MAIDEN, WIFE, AND MOTHER →