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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.

Author/creator Becklard, Eugène author.
Other author/creatorHoward, Philip M., translator.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Philadelphia : John B. Perry, 1848.
Copyright Notice ©1845
Description1 online resource (192 pages).
Supplemental Content Gale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Subject(s)
Series Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
General note"Books, published and for sale, wholesale and retail, by John B. Perry ... Philadelphia."--p. 1-21, second sequence.
General note"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."
General noteIncludes 21 pages of publisher's advertisements at end.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
LanguageText in English; translated from the original French.

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