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Excerpt from Female Health and Hygiene on the Pacific Coast No apology is necessary for an attempt to lessen, the amount of human suffering by explaining the causes of disease, and pointing out the principles, of its prevention. There is no unobjectionable popular work upon the subject of female hygiene and the many admirable instructions scattered through the texts books are not accessible to general readers. A long and varied medical experience of nearly forty years, of which many were passed in the English metropolis, has convinced me of the growing importance of popularising preventive medicine; whilst my early experiences in this city clearly demonstrated the desirability of directing the attention of the ladies to improved physical development and personal hygiene. After so short a residence I do not pretend to have obtained by any means a complete insight into all the characteristics of Californian society, or to have fathomed the bottom of female mistakes and weaknesses. I have sought the most reliable sources of information for my facts. 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.