Excerpt from A Doctor's Talk With Maiden, Wife, and Mother Tms little work really needs no words of intro duction: it will speak for itself. In its prepara tion I have endeavored to keep constantly before my mind the well-known maxim of Aristotle, to say what should be said, to say only what should be said, 'and to say it as it should be said. The subjects treated of in the book are all im portant at the present time, albeit that they are of a delicate nature. It is getting to be a very seri ous question with the medical profession, What is the matter with American women) I cannot hope to have fully answered it; but possibly I have herein thrown out some suggestions which may prove of value to those whom they most in timately concern. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.