The “Introduction” in the succeeding pages, being amply explanatory, but
few prefatory words will suffice. The object and intention of the work
is manifest and self-evident.
It is to extend to every female, whether wife, mother or daughter, such
information as will best qualify her to judge of her own maladies, and,
having ascertained their existence, apply the proper remedies.
From these pages she will learn the causes, the symptoms and the
remedies, for such complaints to which she may be liable, the nature of
which she may not desire to impart to another.
Whether married or unmarried, she can, from these pages, compare her own
symptoms with those described, and act in accordance with the mode of
treatment prescribed. She will thereby be exempt from those doubts,
perplexities and anxieties, which arise from ignorance of her situation,
or the causes which produce it.
In short, the author sincerely believes that to the female budding into
womanhood,—to one about to become a wife, or to the wife about becoming
a mother, as well as to every one already a wife and a mother, as also
to the female in the decline of years, in whom nature contemplates an
important change, the “Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion”
contains instructions of such paramount importance, as to embrace the
present happiness and future welfare of each.
One word in conclusion. It is not pretended that the concentration of
the results of medical research emanates from _one_ author, for be he
ever so versed in medical science, he would come far, far short of so
herculean a task. It is, therefore, necessarily derived from authors on
medical and physiological sciences, of great acquirements and
distinguished celebrity.
It hardly need be added that great labour has been encountered in the
preparation of a work of this nature, as the most reliable and correct
sources have been availed of.