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Searchlights on Health

by B. G. Jefferis

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Author
Nichols, J. L. (James Lawrence), -1895
Title
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Credits
Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Sexual ethics
Category
Text
eBook-No.
23609
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23609
Release Date
November 24, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.GUARDIAN ANGEL — SEARCHLIGHTS ON HEALTH — LIGHT ON DARK CORNERS
  2. 2.A COMPLETE SEXUAL SCIENCE
  3. 3.ADVICE TO MAIDEN, WIFE, AND MOTHER — LOVE, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE. — Prof. B. G. JEFFERIS, M.D., PH.D., — J. L. NICHOLS, A.M. — J. L. NICHOLS & CO. — SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. — He stumbleth not, because he seeth the Light. — "Search Me, Oh Thou Great Creator."
  4. 4.Knowledge is Safety.
  5. 5.The Beginning of Life.
  6. 6.Health a Duty.
  7. 7.Value of Reputation.
  8. 8.Influence of Associates.
  9. 9.Self-Control.
  10. 10.Habit.
  11. 11.A Good Name.
  12. 12.The Mother's Influence.
  13. 13.Home Power.
  14. 14.To Young Women.
  15. 15.Influence of Female Character.
  16. 16.Personal Purity.
  17. 17.How to Write All Kinds of Letters.
  18. 18.HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER.
  19. 19.FORMS OF SOCIAL LETTERS.
  20. 20.FORMS OF LOVE LETTERS.
  21. 21.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.
  22. 22.Practical Rules on Table Manners.
  23. 23.Social Duties.
  24. 24.Politeness.
  25. 25.Influence of Good Character.
  26. 26.Family Government.
  27. 27.CONVERSATION. — Home Lessons in Conversation. — OR
  28. 28.The Care of the Person. — IMPORTANT RULES. — A YOUNG MAN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
  29. 29.Dress.
  30. 30.Beauty.
  31. 31.Sensible Helps to Beauty.
  32. 32.How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth. — THE SECRET OF ITS PRESERVATION.
  33. 33.Form and Deformity. — HOW TO DETERMINE A PERFECT HUMAN FIGURE. — THE HISTORY, MYSTERY, BENEFITS AND INJURIES OF THE CORSET. — TIGHT-LACING.
  34. 34.The Care of the Hair. — HOW TO BEAUTIFY AND PRESERVE THE HAIR.
  35. 35.How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions. — BLACK-HEADS AND FLESH WORMS.
  36. 36.Love.
  37. 37.The Power and Peculiarities of Love. — LOVE IS A TONIC AND A REMEDY FOR DISEASE, MAKES PEOPLE LOOK YOUNGER, CREATES INDUSTRY, ETC.
  38. 38.Amativeness or Connubial Love.
  39. 39.Love and Common-Sense.
  40. 40.What Women Love in Men.
  41. 41.What Men Love in Women.
  42. 42.History of Marriage.
  43. 43.Marriage.
  44. 44.The Advantages of Wedlock.
  45. 45.Disadvantages of Celibacy.
  46. 46.Old Maids.
  47. 47.When and Whom to Marry. — CHOOSE INTELLECTUALLY—LOVE AFTERWARD.
  48. 48.Love-Spats. — "Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath."
  49. 49.A Broken Heart.
  50. 50.Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men.
  51. 51.Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner.
  52. 52.SAFE HINTS.
  53. 53.Marriage Securities.
  54. 54.Women Who Make the Best Wives.
  55. 55.Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors. — ADVICE TO THE MARRIED AND UNMARRIED.
  56. 56.FIRST LOVE, DESERTION AND DIVORCE.
  57. 57.Flirting and Its Dangers.
  58. 58.A Word to Maidens.
  59. 59.POPPING THE QUESTION.
  60. 60.The Wedding.
  61. 61.Advice to Newly Married Couples.
  62. 62.Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties.
  63. 63.How to Perpetuate the Honey-Moon.
  64. 64.How to Be a Good Wife.
  65. 65.How to Be a Good Husband.
  66. 66.Cause of Family Troubles.
  67. 67.Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure.
  68. 68.The Improvement of Offspring. — Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics?
  69. 69.Too Many Children.
  70. 70.Small Families and the Improvement of the Race.
  71. 71.The Generative Organs. — THE MALE GENERATIVE ORGANS AND THEIR STRUCTURE AND ADAPTATION. — THE FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
  72. 72.THE MYSTERIES OF THE FORMATION OF LIFE.
  73. 73.PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION.
  74. 74.VAGINAL CLEANLINESS.
  75. 75.IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY.
  76. 76.Producing Boys or Girls at Will.
  77. 77.ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.
  78. 78.The Murder of the Innocents.
  79. 79.The Unwelcome Child. [2]
  80. 80.Heredity and the Transmission of Diseases.
  81. 81.Preparation for Maternity.
  82. 82.Impregnation.
  83. 83.Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy.
  84. 84.Diseases of Pregnancy.
  85. 85.MORNING SICKNESS.
  86. 86.Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy.
  87. 87.A Private Word to the Expectant Mother
  88. 88.Shall Pregnant Women Work?
  89. 89.Words for Young Mothers.
  90. 90.How to Have Beautiful Children.
  91. 91.Education of the Child in the Womb.
  92. 92.How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor.
  93. 93.DURATION OF PREGNANCY.
  94. 94.The Signs and Symptoms of Labor.
  95. 95.Special Safeguards in Confinement.
  96. 96.WHERE DID THE BABY COME FROM?
  97. 97.Child Bearing Without Pain. — HOW TO DRESS, DIET AND EXERCISE IN PREGNANCY.
  98. 98.Solemn Lessons for Parents. — CASES CITED.
  99. 99.The Care of New-Born Infants.
  100. 100.NURSING.
  101. 101.FEEDING INFANTS.
  102. 102.INFANTILE CONVULSIONS.
  103. 103.Pains and Ills in Nursing.
  104. 104.Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children.
  105. 105.A Practical Rule for Feeding a Baby on Cow's Milk. — INFANT FOOD FOR 24 HOURS.
  106. 106.HOW TO KEEP A BABY WELL.
  107. 107.HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF YOUR INFANT DURING HOT WEATHER.
  108. 108.Infant Teething.
  109. 109.HOME TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. — WORMS.
  110. 110.HOW TO TREAT CROUP — SPASMODIC AND TRUE.
  111. 111.DISEASES OF WOMEN. — DISORDERS OF THE MENSES. — HOW TO CURE SWELLED AND SORE BREASTS. — LEUCORRHEA OR WHITES. — INFLAMMATION OF THE WOMB. — HYSTERIA.
  112. 112.Falling of the Womb.
  113. 113.Menstruation.
  114. 114.Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them. — HOW TO CURE
  115. 115.Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy.
  116. 116.Sensible Rules for the Nurse.
  117. 117.Longevity.
  118. 118.HOW TO APPLY AND USE HOT WATER IN ALL DISEASES.
  119. 119.HOW TO USE COLD WATER.
  120. 120.Practical Rules for Bathing.
  121. 121.All the Different Kinds of Baths, and How to Prepare Them. — THE SULPHUR BATH. — THE SALT BATH. — THE VAPOR BATH. — THE HOT-AIR BATH. — THE SPONGE BATH. — THE FOOT BATH. — THE SITZ BATH. — THE ACID BATH. — A Sure Cure for Prickly Heat.
  122. 122.Digestibility of Food.
  123. 123.How to Cook for the Sick. — Useful Dietetic Recipes. — GRUELS. — DRINKS. — JELLIES. — MISCELLANEOUS.
  124. 124.Save the Girls.
  125. 125.Save the Boys. — PLAIN WORDS TO PARENTS.
  126. 126.The Inhumanities of Parents.
  127. 127.Chastity and Purity of Character.
  128. 128.Exciting the Passions in Children.
  129. 129.Puberty, Virility and Hygienic Laws.
  130. 130.Our Secret Sins.
  131. 131.Physical and Moral Degeneracy.
  132. 132.Immorality, Disease and Death.
  133. 133.Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures.
  134. 134.Startling Sins.
  135. 135.The Prostitution of Men. — CAUSE AND REMEDY.
  136. 136.The Road to Shame.
  137. 137.The Curse of Manhood.
  138. 138.A Private Talk to Young Men.
  139. 139.Remedies for the Social Evil.
  140. 140.The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.
  141. 141.OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.
  142. 142.THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.
  143. 143.The Dangerous Vices. — SYMPTOMS. — MARRIED PEOPLE. — EXTREME YOUTH. — FORCE OF HABIT. — SIN OF IGNORANCE. — QUACKS. — GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF THE SECRET HABIT. — HOME TREATMENT OF THE SECRET HABIT. — NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS — HOME TREATMENT FOR NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS. — BEWARE OF ADVERTISING QUACKS.
  144. 144.Lost Manhood Restored.
  145. 145.Manhood Wrecked and Rescued.
  146. 146.The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases. — HOW TO CURE GONORRHŒA (Clap). — SYPHILIS (Pox). — BUBO. — GLEET (Chronic Clap). — STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA . — PHIMOSIS.
  147. 147.Animal Magnetism. — WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT.
  148. 148.How to Read Character. — 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. — SECRETIVE DISPOSITIONS. — Dictionary of Medical Terms.
  149. 149.Alphabetical Index. — Notes

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