_Size, 6 × 8¾; 278 pages; fully illustrated._ _Price, $2.00_
This work marks in its own line the opening of a new epoch. Hitherto
such works have been devoted to treatment and a study of the abnormal;
here these subjects yield precedence to prevention and a common-sense
exposition of the normal. The author, imbued with the spirit of modern
preventive medicine, points out the errors and abuses of modern
life (so easily avoided and yet so easily yielded to) which affect
injuriously the health of women and children. At the same time he
clearly assists the mother and others to understand the physiology of
womanhood and motherhood, the care of the infant and young girl and the
detection and treatment of common complaints. The subjects of heredity,
environment, education and schools, the home-training of children, the
physical development of the body and the position of woman in modern
life, are among the topics of the day which are touched upon in a new
light in this concisely written book. Each of its three sections,
_Girlhood_, _Motherhood_ and _Infancy_, provides the mother, the
schoolmistress, and the intelligent nurse with a fascinating and easily
understood guide and high ideals.