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the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved 

 from his attention." 



The Greatest Cause of Uterine Disease. —Dr. 



J. R. Black remarks as follows on this subject: 



''Medical writers agree that one of the most com- 

 mon causes of the many forms of derangement to which 

 woman is subject consists in excessive cohabitation. 

 The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, 

 leucorrhea, amenorrhea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic 

 inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet 

 greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are 

 some of the distressing forms of these derangements. 

 The popular way of accounting for many of these ills 

 is that they come from colds or from straining lifts. 

 But if colds and great strain upon the parts in ques- 

 tion develop such diseases, why are they not seen among 

 the inferior animals? The climatic alternations they 

 endure, the severe labor some of them are obliged to 

 perform, ought to cause their ruin ; or else, in popular 

 phrase, 'make them catch their death o' cold.' " 



Legalized Murder.— A medical writer of consider- 

 able ability presents the following picture, the coun- 

 terpart of which almost any one can recall as having 

 occurred within the circle of his acquaintance ; perhaps 

 numerous cases will be recalled by one who has been 

 especially observing : 



"A man of great vital force is united to a woman 

 of evenly balanced organization. The husband, in the 

 exercise of what he is pleased to term his 'marital 

 rights,' places his wife, in a short time, on the nervous, 

 delicate, sickly list. In the blindness and ignorance of 

 his animal nature, he requires prompt obedience to his 

 desires ; and, ignorant of the law of right in this direc- 

 tion, thinking that it is her duty to accede to his wishes, 



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