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much less frequent tlian before. The result was not 

 all that could be desired, but there was marked im- 

 provement. If the husband had been willing to ''do 

 right," entire recovery would have taken place with 

 rapidity. 



Thousands of unfortunate wives are constantly 

 under the doctor's care for the treatment of local ail- 

 ments which have their sole origin in sexual excesses 

 for which their husbands are responsible. It is not 

 overstating the matter when we say that we have met 

 hundreds of cases of this sort, and scores of times have 

 we been requested by suffering wives to appeal to their 

 husbands in their behalf. 



Something for Husbands to Consider.— We take 

 pleasure in quoting the following remarks from an 

 address of the eminent Prof. T. Parvin, M. D., of Jef- 

 ferson Medical College, Philadelphia: 



''In woman, love throbs in every pulse, thrills in 

 every nerve and fiber of her being ; her life is love. She 

 gives herself to the one she truly loves. If you find 

 out the history of poor seduced girls, those who, as is 

 so commonly said, loved not wisely but too well, you 

 will find that in almost all cases they yielded to the 

 seducer in no paroxysm of sensual passion, but because 

 they loved and trusted with their whole heart ; they fell 

 because they sought not their own, but the gratification 

 of another. I do not believe one bride in a hundred, 

 of delicate, educated, sensitive women, accepts matri- 

 mony from any desire of sexual gratification ; when she 

 thinks of this at all, it is with shrinking, rather than 

 with desire. Happy that union in which the husband 

 understands the womanly nature. 



"On the other hand, how many women are made 

 wretched by the husband who thinks the highest end of 



