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Edward Bliss Foote, Jr., M. D.
Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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HUBERT T. FOOTE, M.D. EDWARD B. FOOTE, JR, M.D. My object in preparing this work is to supply a desideratum which haslong existed, i.e., a medical work, reviewing first causes as well as facts andultimate effects, written in language strictly mundane, and comprehensiblealike to the lowly inmate of a basement and the exquisite student of an atticstudio ; and if successful in fulfilling the promise of the title-page, I have toomuch confidence in the intelligence of the masses and the erudition of the un-prejudiced scholar to believe that it will be received with unappreciation orindifference. Many of the theories which these pages will advance are certainlynew and antagonistic to those popularly entertained, but it does not follow thatthey are incorrect or unworthy the consideration of the philosophical and physi-ological inquirer. They are founded upon careful observation, experiment andextensive medical practice, and if the truth of the theories may be judged bythe success of the latt