Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
by J. L. Nichols B. G. Jefferis
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
Chapters (694)(click to expand)
- SEARCHLIGHTS ON HEALTH
- THE SCIENCE OF EUGENICS
- J.L. NICHOLS & COMPANY
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- KNOWLEDGE IS SAFETY.
- THE BEGINNING OF LIFE.
- HEALTH A DUTY.
- VALUE OF REPUTATION.
- INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATES.
- SELF-CONTROL.
- HABIT.
- A GOOD NAME.
- THE MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
- Home Power.
- TO YOUNG WOMEN.
- INFLUENCE OF FEMALE CHARACTER.
- PERSONAL PURITY.
- HOW TO WRITE ALL KINDS OF LETTERS.
- How to Write a Love Letter.
- FORMS OF SOCIAL LETTERS.
- LETTER WRITING.
- FORMS OF LOVE LETTERS.
- 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.
- PRACTICAL RULES ON TABLE MANNERS.
- SOCIAL DUTIES.
- POLITENESS.
- Influence of Good Character.
- FAMILY GOVERNMENT.
- CONVERSATION.
- Home Lessons in Conversation.
- IMPORTANT RULES.
- A YOUNG MAN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
- DRESS.
- BEAUTY
- Sensible Helps to Beauty.
- How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth.
- THE SECRET OF ITS PRESERVATION.
- Form and Deformity.
- HOW TO DETERMINE A PERFECT HUMAN FIGURE.
- THE HISTORY, MYSTERY, BENEFITS AND INJURIES OF THE CORSET.
- TIGHT-LACING.
- The Care of the Hair.
- HOW TO BEAUTIFY AND PRESERVE THE HAIR.
- How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions.
- BLACK-HEADS AND FLESH WORMS.
- LOVE.
- The Power and Peculiarities of Love.
- LOVE IS A TONIC AND A REMEDY FOR DISEASE, MAKES PEOPLE LOOK YOUNGER, CREATES INDUSTRY, ETC.
- Amativeness or Connubial Love.
- Love and Common-Sense.
- What Women Love in Men.
- What Men Love in Women.
- History of Marriage.
- Marriage.
- The Advantages of Wedlock.
- Disadvantages of Celibacy.
- Old Maids.
- When and Whom to Marry.
- CHOOSE INTELLECTUALLY—LOVE AFTERWARD.
- Love-Spats.
- A Broken Heart.
- Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men.
- Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner.
- SAFE HINTS.
- Marriage Securities.
- WOMEN WHO MAKE THE BEST WIVES.
- Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors.
- ADVICE TO THE MARRIED AND UNMARRIED.
- FIRST LOVE, DESERTION AND DIVORCE.
- Flirting and Its Dangers.
- A Word to Maidens.
- POPPING THE QUESTION.
- The Wedding.
- Advice to Newly Married Couples.
- Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties.
- How to Perpetuate The Honey-Moon.
- How to Be a Good Wife.
- How to Be a Good Husband.
- Cause of Family Troubles.
- Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure.
- The Improvement of Offspring.
- Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics?
- Too Many Children.
- Small Families and the Improvement of the Race.
- The Generative Organs.
- THE FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.
- THE MYSTERIES OF THE FORMATION OF LIFE.
- CONCEPTION—ITS LIMITATIONS.
- PRENATAL INFLUENCES.
- VAGINAL CLEANLINESS.
- IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY.
- Producing Boys or Girls at Will.
- ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.
- The Murder of the Innocents.
- The Unwelcome Child.[A]
- HEALTH AND DISEASE.
- Heredity and the Transmission of Diseases.
- Preparation for Maternity.
- Impregnation.
- Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy.
- Diseases of Pregnancy.
- MORNING SICKNESS.
- Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy.
- A Private Word to the Expectant Mother.
- Shall Pregnant Women Work?
- Words for Young Mothers.
- How to Have Beautiful Children.
- Education of the Child in the Womb.
- How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor.
- The Signs and Symptoms of Labor.
- Special Safeguards in Confinement.
- WHERE DID THE BABY COME FROM?
- Child Bearing Without Pain.
- HOW TO DRESS, DIET AND EXERCISE IN PREGNANCY.
- Solemn Lessons for Parents.
- Ten Health Rules for Babies Cut Death Rate in Two.
- The Care of New-Born Infants.
- NURSING.
- FEEDING INFANTS.
- INFANTILE CONVULSIONS.
- Pains and Ills in Nursing.
- Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children.
- TABLE FOR FEEDING MODIFIED MILK
- NURSING.
- SCHEDULE FOR FEEDING HEALTHY INFANTS DURING FIRST YEAR
- HOW TO KEEP A BABY WELL.
- HOW TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH AND LIFE OF YOUR INFANT DURING HOT WEATHER.
- Infant Teething.
- HOME TREATMENT FOR THE DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
- HOW TO TREAT CROUP
- SPASMODIC AND TRUE.
- DISEASES OF WOMEN.
- Falling of the Womb.
- Menstruation.
- Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them.
- HOW TO CURE
- Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy.
- Sensible Rules for the Nurse.
- Longevity.
- HOW TO APPLY AND USE HOT WATER IN ALL DISEASES.
- Practical Rules for Bathing.
- All the Different Kinds of Baths, and How to Prepare Them.
- DIGESTIBILITY OF FOOD.
- DIGESTIBILITY OF FOOD
- How to Cook for the Sick.
- Useful Dietetic Recipes.
- Save the Girls.
- Save the Boys.
- PLAIN WORDS TO PARENTS.
- The Inhumanities of Parents.
- Chastity and Purity of Character.
- Exciting the Passions in Children.
- Puberty, Virility and Hygienic Laws.
- Our Secret Sins.
- Physical and Moral Degeneracy.
- Immorality, Disease and Death.
- Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures.
- Startling Sins.
- The Prostitution of Men.
- CAUSE AND REMEDY.
- The Road to Shame.
- The Curse of Manhood.
- A Private Talk to Young Men.
- Remedies for the Social Evil.
- The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death.
- OBJECT LESSONS OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTE SMOKING.
- THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.
- The Dangerous Vices.
- NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS.
- Lost Manhood Restored.
- Manhood Wrecked and Rescued.
- The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases.
- HOW TO CURE GONORRHOEA (Clap).
- SYPHILIS (Pox).
- BUBO.
- GLEET (Chronic Clap).
- STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
- PHIMOSIS.
- ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
- WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO USE IT.
- 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.
- TWILIGHT SLEEP.
- PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH.
- THE DISEASES OF WOMEN.
- CHLOROSIS OR ANAEMIA.
- DISORDERS OF THE MENSES.
- DISORDERS OF THE WOMB.
- DISEASES OF THE VAGINA.
- DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL FEMALE GENITALS.
- DISEASES OF THE OVARIES.
- REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF WOMEN.
- ALPHABETICAL INDEX.
- HYPERLINKED INDEX.
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