Note 1 — AN INTRODUCTION AND ADVICE to the LADIES, POINTING OUT The dangers attending backening their milk the first four or five Weeks after Delivery.

I make a great Distinction between Modesty, and Virtue. A Woman may be virtuous, without being Modest—but it is impossible to be modest, without being virtuous. Modesty is the guard of Virtue—but it is possible a cold Constitution may preserve Virtue, even after every Trace of Modesty has been obliterated.