Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage : an infallible guide-book for married and single persons, in matters of the utmost importance to the human race / by Eugene Becklard, M.D. ; translated from the third Paris edition, by Philip M. Howard, M.D. With a supplement from Canfield's Sexual physiology on coquetry, venereal madness, marriage, etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becklard, Eugène, author.

Contributor:

Howard, Philip M., translator.

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Marriage.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages).

Other Title:

Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage

Place of Publication:

John B. Perry

Language Note:

Text in English; translated from the original French.

Notes:

"Books, published and for sale, wholesale and retail, by John B. Perry ... Philadelphia."--p. 1-21, second sequence.

"Among the things duly considered in this work are matters of serious importance to single and young married persons--The causes of, and the cures for sterility--the art of beauty and courtship--The danger of solitary practices, and how the habit may be removed--The causes of love and jealousy, with a remedy for eradicating from the system the seeds of a hopeless or an unhappy passion--Offspring, including modes for the propitiation or prevention thereof--Tests for knowing the sexes of unborn children--Intermarriage--Persons who ought and ought not to marry--The most auspicious season for wedlock, &c. &c."

Includes 21 pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

1162454789