The secret habits of the female sex : letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude, and its seductive temptations to young girls, the premature victims of a pernicious passion, with all its frightful consequences, deformity of mind and body, destruction of beauty, and entailing disease and death : but from which, by attention to the timely warning here given, the devotee may be saved, and become an ornament to society, a virtuous wife and a refulgent mother / from the French of Jean Dubois, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubois, Jean, M.D., author.

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction for women.

Masturbation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : color illustrations.

Distribution:

Philadelphia : Sold by the booksellers generally, [186-?]

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [186-?]

Language Note:

In English; translated from the French.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Another edition was published in New York by J.H. Farrell between 1859 and 1873.

Hand-colored plates.

This work should be read by all classes; while it forcibly describes the misery attendant upon solitude, it prescribes a medical treatment and regimen which has never failed of success -- title page.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

937019560

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.