Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage : an infallible guide-book for married and single persons, in matters of utmost importance to the human race / by Eugene Becklard, M.D., translated from the third Paris edition, with revision and additions of the sixth Paris edition by Phillip M. Howard.

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):

Marriage.

Masturbation.

Sex.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait.

Other Title:

Physiological mysteries and revelations in love, courtship and marriage

Place of Publication:

Holland & Glover

Contents:

Among the things duly considered in this work are matters of serious importance to single and young married persons

The causes of, and 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 ifor [sic] knowing the sexes of unborn children, and procuring others according to choice

Intermarriage

Persons who ought, and ought not to marry

The most auspicious season for wedlock, &c., &c.

Notes:

"Illustrated with 16 engravings."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Contains:

Onanism and its cure.

OCLC:

1162308789

Bound With:

With: Onanism and its cure : an infallible text book for the cure of all diseases in the male or female, produced by over indulgence, onanism, or masturbation / translated from the French of Henriot, Tissot, Deslandes, and Becklard, by James Guierson. New York : Holland & Glover, 1845.