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Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics. J. L. Nichols
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Автор произведения J. L. Nichols
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The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.
OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.
THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.
The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.
HOW TO CURE GONORRHOEA (Clap) .
HOW TO TELL DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE NOSE.
DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY STATURE.
DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE WALK.
THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY LAUGHING.
DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE MODE OF SHAKING HANDS.
THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE MOUTH AND EYES.
THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER BY THE COLOR OF THE HAIR.
DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL FEMALE GENITALS.
REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF WOMEN.
HYPERLINKED INDEX.
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KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY.
1. The old maxim, that "Knowledge is power," is a true one, but there is still a greater truth: "KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY." Safety amid physical ills that beset mankind, and safety amid the moral pitfalls that surround so many young people, is the great crying demand of the age.
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2. Criticism.—This work, though plain and to some extent startling, is chaste, practical and to the point, and will be a boon and a blessing to thousands who consult its pages. The world is full of ignorance, and the ignorant will always criticise, because they live to suffer ills, for they know no better. New light is fast falling upon the dark corners, and the eyes of many are being opened.
3. Researches of Science.—The researches of science in the past few years have thrown light on many facts relating to the physiology of man and woman, and the diseases to which they are subject, and consequently many reformations have taken place in the treatment and prevention of diseases peculiar to the sexes.
4. Lock and Key.—Any information bearing upon the diseases of mankind should not be kept under lock and key. The physician is frequently called upon to speak in plain language to his patients upon some private and startling disease contracted on account of ignorance. The better plan, however, is to so educate and enlighten old and young upon the important subjects of health, so that the necessity to call a physician may occur less frequently.
5. Progression.—A large, respectable, though diminishing class in every community, maintain that nothing that relates exclusively to either sex should become the subject of popular medical instruction. But such an opinion is radically wrong; ignorance is no more the mother of purity than it is of religion. Enlightenment can never work injustice to him who investigates.
6. An Example.—The men and women who study and practice medicine are not the worse, but the better for such knowledge; so it would be to the community in general if all would be properly instructed on the laws of health which relate to the sexes.
7. Crime and Degradation.—Had every person a sound understanding on the relation of the sexes, one of the most fertile