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Excerpt from Plain Home Talk: About the Human System, the Habits of Men and Women, the Causes and Prevention of Disease, Our Sexual Relations and Social Natures; Embracing Medical Common Sense, Applied to Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases

My correspondence with the people has often exceeded one hun dred letters per day; and the personal experiences and observations which have been confided to me by these numerous correspondents have enabled me to form some idea of the popular needs, and to supply, still further, that physiological instruction which is so greatly wanted to make mankind healthy and happy. In this revision. It has been my aim to present answers to pretty nearly all the ques ticns which have been put to me during the past twelve years, and to recommend such measures for individual and social reform as will prove morally and physically beneficial. To fulfil my duties in these respects, I could not make a volume that would popularly be regarded as suitable for the centre table. Nor yet is it a work that should find a place on some obscure shelf. It seems to me' that the family library is not an inappropriate place for it. How far the heads of families may be willing to allow it to circulate among the youngei members, it must be left for them to determine but, if in.

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