Searchlights on Health

Searchlights on Health

Benjamin Grant Jefferis, Canadian doctor, practising in Chicago (1851-1929)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Knowledge Is Safety

- The Beginning Of Life

- Health A Duty

- Value Of Reputation

- Influence Of Associates

- Self-control

- Habit

- A Good Name

- The Mother's Influence

- Home Power

- To Young Women

- Influence Of Female Character

- Personal Purity

- How To Write All Kinds Of Letters

- How To Write A Love Letter

- Forms Of Social Letters

- Letter Writing

- Forms Of Love Letters

- Hints And Helps On Good Behavior At All Times And At All Places

- A Complete Etiquette In A Few Practical Rules

- Etiquette Of Calls

- Etiquette In Your Speech

- Etiquette Of Dress And Habits

- Etiquette On The Street

- Etiquette Between Sexes

- Practical Rules On Table Manners

- Social Duties

- Politeness

- Influence Of Good Character

- Family Government

- Conversation

- The Toilet Or The Care Of The Person

- A Young Man's Personal Appearance

- Dress

- Beauty

- Sensible Helps To Beauty

- How To Keep The Bloom And Grace Of Youth

- Form And Deformity

- How To Determine A Perfect Human Figure

- The History, Mystery, Benefits And Injuries Of The Corset

- Tight-lacing

- The Care Of The Hair

- How To Cure Pimples Or Other Facial Eruptions

- Black-heads And Flesh Worms

- Love

- The Power And Peculiarities Of Love

- Amativeness Or Connubial Love

- Love And Common Sense

- What Women Love In Men

- What Men Love In Women

- History Of Marriage

- Marriage

- The Advantages Of Wedlock

- The Disadvantages Of Celibacy

- Old Maids

- When And Whom To Marry

- Love-spats

- A Broken Heart

- Former Customs And Peculiarities Among Men

- Sensible Hints In Choosing A Partner

- Safe Hints

- Marriage Securities

- Women Who Make The Best Wives

- Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, And Fatal Errors

- First Love, Desertion And Divorce

- Sexual Proprieties And Improprieties

- The Female Sexual Organs

- The Mysteries Of The Formation Of Life

- Prenatal Influences

- Vaginal Cleanliness

- Impotence And Sterility

- Producing Boys Or Girls At Will

- Abortion Or Miscarriage

- The Murder Of Innocents

- The Unwelcome Child

- Health And Disease

- Preparation For Maternity

- Impregnation

- Signs And Symptoms Of Pregnancy

- Diseases Of Pregnancy

- Morning Sickness

- Relation Of Husband And Wife During Pregnancy

- A Private Word To The Expectant Mother

- Shall Pregnant Women Work

- Words For Young Mothers

- How To Have Beautiful Children

- Education Of The Child In The Womb

- How To Calculate The Time Of Expected Labor

- The Signs And Symptoms Of Labor

- Special Safeguards In Confinement

- Where Did The Baby Come From

- Child Bearing Without Pain

- Solemn Lessons For Parents

- Ten Health Rules For Babies Cut Death Rate In Two

- The Care Of New-born Infants

- Nursing

- Feeding Infants

- Infantile Convulsions

- Pains And Ills In Nursing

- Home Lessons In Nursing Sick Children

- A Table For Feeding A Baby On Modified Milk

- Nursing Intervals Table

- Schedule For Feeding Healthy Infants During First Year

- How To Keep A Baby Well

- How To Preserve The Health And Life Of Your Infant During Hot Weather

- Infant Teething

- Home Treatments For The Diseases Of Infants And Children

- Diseases Of Women

- Falling Of The Womb

- Menstruation

- Celebrated Prescriptions For All Diseases And How To Use Them

- How To Cure Apoplexy, Bad Breath And Quinsy

- Sensible Rules For The Nurse

- Longevity

- How To Apply And Use Hot Water In All Diseases

- Practical Rules For Bathing

- All The Different Kinds Of Baths And How To Prepare Them

- Digestibility Of Food

- How To Cook For The Sick

- Save The Girls

- Save The Boys

- The Inhumanities Of Parents

- Chastity And Purity Of Chracter

- Exciting The Passions In Children

- Puberty, Virility, And Hygenic Laws

- Our Secret Sins

- Physical And Moral Degeneracy

- Immorality, Disease, And Death

- Poisonous Literature And Bad Pictures

- Startling Sins

- The Prostitution Of Men

- The Road To Shame

- The Curse Of Manhood

- A Private Talk To Young Men

- Remedies For The Social Evil

- The Selfish Slaves Of Doses Of Disease And Death

- Object Lessons Of The Effects Of Alcohol And Smoking

- The Destructive Effects Of Cigarette Smoking

- The Dangerous Vices

- Nocturnal Emissions

- Lost Manhood Restored

- Manhood Wrecked And Rescued

- The Curse And Consequence Of Secret Diseases

- Animal Magnetism

- How To Read Character

- Twilight Sleep

- Painless Childbirth

- The Diseases Of Women

- Remedies For Diseases Of Women