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" effects on offspring, 376

" self-helps to cure, 385

Menopause, the, 82

Menorrhagia, 91

Menses, 81

Menstrual period, duration of, 82

Menstruation, 81

" nature of, 83

Mental unchastity, 174

" culture, 313

Milk, influence of upon children, 70

Mind, cause of unbalanced, 129

Mormonism, 148

Monsters, 99

Mock piety, 338

Moderation, 248

Modesty, 488

Mothers, a warning to, 201

" their work, 479

Moral contagion, 459

Moving apparatus, 425

Multiple births, 98

Navel, the, 68

Nervous diseases, 368

" debility, treatment of, 378

Nocturnal emissions, 353

Novel-reading, 486

Nursing, 70

Nutrition, 30

Nutritive apparatus, 425

Nymphae, the, 73

Nymphomania, 301

Objects of life, 423

Obscene books, 187

Obscenity, 462

Oneida community, the, 258

Organized beings, 28

Organization, 28

Ovary, 51

Ovum, 51

" discharge of, 83

" size of, 52

" expulsion of from ovary, 74

" union of the, with the zoosperm, 57

Pangenesis, doctrine of, 103

Paralysis, 369

Parturition, 68

" painless, 68

Passion, inherited, 121

Passions, how excited, 183

Pedestrianism, 40

Pernicious books, influence of, 297

Penis, the, 56, 71

Physical differences in sex, 39

Piles, 350

Pimples, 342

Placenta, 67

Plants, sex of, 37

Pictures, vile, 464

Poisonous literature, 189

Polyandry, 152

Polygamous flowers, 47

Polygamy, 145

" defense of, 148

" exposed, 149

" of great men, 152

Precocity, 77

" sexual, 117

" indications of, 119

Pregnancy, 62

" duration of, 66

" extra-uterine, 97

" indulgence during, 241

Premature development, 78

" decay, 419

Prevention of conception, 250

Priapism, 350

Prostate gland, 72

" " enlargement of the, 349

Prostitution, 400

" in Greece, 287

Pruritis, 374

Puberty, 74

" premature, 75

" influence of diet on, 76

" changes at, 79

" influence of climate on, 75

Pudenda, the, 73

Purifying apparatus, 425

Quacks, 362, 412

Race degeneration, cause of, 436

Religion, help of, 213

Religious novels, 297

" insanity, 371

Reproduction, 31, 424, 476

" elements of, 45

" in polyps, 58

" anatomy of, 71

" curious modes of, 57

" in the honey bee, 58

" in lower animals, 218

Reproductive organs, 71

" functions, 217

" apparatus, 426

" elements, union of, 57

Reptiles, fecundation in, 56

" development in, 60

Respiration in woman, 44

" of the fetus, 67

Results of abortion, 280

Roman emperors, licentiousness of, 288

Satyriasis, 124

Scrotum, the, 71

Secret vice, 428

" " evidences of, 481

" " prevalence of, 480

" " terrible effects of, 480

Self-abuse, 315, 428

" causes of, 321, 487

" effects of, 437

" the signs of, 331

" results of, 347

" treatment of, 378

" not a modern vice, 319

" physical causes of, 329

" how to cure the habit of, 382

Self-control, 311

Self-pollution, 428

Self-murder, 431

Seminal fluid, the, 51, 72

Senility, 420

Senile children, 134

" sexuality, 123

Sentimental books, 485

" young women, 190

" literature, influence of, 296

Sex, 35

" in plants, 37

" in animals, 38

" law of, 101

" of fetus, 102

Sexual differences, 38

" organs of plants, 46

" " of animals, 48

" relations, the, 116

" precocity, 117

" " causes of, 122

" activity, the limit of, 124

Shaker views, 258

Sitz-baths, 404

Sleeping, 393

Social lepers, 146

" evil, the, 284

" " causes of the, 290

" " cure of the, 308

Solitary vice, 315

" " alarming prevalence of, 316

" " unsuspected cause of, 318

Spaying, 115

Spermatozoa, 48

" size of, 50

Spermatorrhoea, 353

Spinal irritation, 369

Sterility, 374

Stimulants the cause of self-abuse, 330

Stricture, 348

Suicide, cause of, 453

"Tarrying," 140

Tea and coffee, 292

" " " bad effects of, 467

Testicles, position of, 48

" wasting of, 352

Temperaments, 166

Thinking apparatus, 425

Thoughts, evil, 465

Throat disease, cause of, 229

Time to marry, 125

Tobacco, 292

" evil effects of, 467

" grave charges against, 185

Twins, 98

Umbilical cord, 67

Unchaste conversation, 179

Unchastity, causes of, 181

" of the ancients, 274

" physical causes of, 201

Unconsidered murders, 260

Uterus, 61

Uterine life, 66

" douche, 93

" disease, 233, 373

" gestation, 62

Urinary diseases, 349

Urethra, the, 72

Vagina, the, 56, 74

Varicocele, 352

Vegetable husbands, 47

Vice legalized, 309

Vicious companions, 484

Vital force, definition of, 29

" organs of man and woman, 43

Vision, dimness of, 369

Vulva, the, 73

Waltz, the, its sensuality, 199

Weak backs, 339

Wine, evil effects of, 467

Wives, on trial, 139

" sale of, among the Russians, 138

Woman, servitude of, 263

" her responsibility, 270

Woman's rights, 264

Women, Indian, 86

" Hebrew, 87

Womb, cancer of the, 374



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