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THE HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION:
ITS EXTENT, CAUSES, AND EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
[BEING AN OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE BOARD OF ALMS-HOUSE GOVERNORS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.]
BY WILLIAM W. SANGER, M.D., RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, BLACKWELL’S ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE; LATE ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS TO THE MARINE HOSPITAL, QUARANTINE, NEW YORK, ETC., ETC., ETC.
“To such grievances as society can not readily cure, it usually forbids utterance on pain of its scorn; this scorn being only a sort of tinseled cloak to its deformed weakness.”—Currer Bell, Shirley.
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1858.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.