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Napheys, George H.; M. L. Holbrook. The Physical Life of Woman ; Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother, to Which is Added: Parturition Without Pain by M.L. Holbrook. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hunter Rose Publishing Company, N.D. [Circa 1890]. Third Canadian Edition. pp. 382. Small thick 8vo., measuring 7.25″ x 5.25″. Publisher’s stamped forest-green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Sections include: The Maiden: Puberty; Love; The Wife; Pregnancy; Confinement; The Mother; The Single Life; The Change of Life; How to Stop Abortion; the Wickedness of Abortion; Why Women Can Be Too Prolific; Is Genius Hereditary?; To Have Boys or Girls. A remarkably unscientific work, approaching the “health” of women through a decidedly patriarchal, rigid, and religious approach (not uncommon for its time). Extremities rubbed, evidence of fraying to the spine ends and tips, pages uniformly age-toned owing to the age, and acidic composition of the pages, slight worming to the margins (entirely unaffecting the text), text-block remains clean and unmarked with sound binding. Overall, good+. Corresponds to OCLC #8269868. Not found in Osler. Hardcover. ”In bringing about a new Canadian edition of Dr. Naphey’s invaluable Work, little need be said by way of Preface. No one can read the book without profiting by it; and no one need expect to find in its pages a single word to offend any mind rightly constituted. In the words of the New York Evangelist, “the most delicate subjects are treated in language so chaste as not to offend any pure mind; and the highest authority we acknowledge declares, that ‘to the pure all things are pure’,”. (#6699) $89.00
