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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The secret habits of the female sex - letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude and its seductive temptations to young girls |
| Reference | 103781.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1848 |
| Author | Dubois, Jean |
| Place of Creation | New York |
| Description | Letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude and its seductive temptations to young girls, the premature victims of a pernicious passion, with all its frightful consequences: deformity of mind and body, destruction of beauty, and entailing disease and death; but from which, by attention to the timely warnings here given, the devotee may be saved, and become an ornament to society, a virtuous wife, and a refulgent mother! This work should be read by all classes: while it forcibly describes the misery attendant upon solitude, it prescribed a medical treatment and regimen which has never failed of success. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Women's Health |
| Keywords | tuberculosis, medicine, cure, female complaints, physician, weakness, nerves, blood, disease, sleep |
| Parts of the Body | respiratory system |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Visual Content | View thumbnails |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |