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The “Introduction” in the succeeding pages, beingamply explanatory, but few prefatory words will suffice.The object and intention of the work is manifestand self-evident.
It is to extend to every female, whether wife, motheror daughter, such information as will best qualify herto judge of her own maladies, and, having ascertainedtheir existence, apply the proper remedies.
From these pages she will learn the causes, thesymptoms and the remedies, for such complaints towhich she may be liable, the nature of which she maynot desire to impart to another.
Whether married or unmarried, she can, from thesepages, compare her own symptoms with those described,and act in accordance with the mode of treatmentprescribed. She will thereby be exempt from thosedoubts, perplexities and anxieties, which arise fromignorance of her situation, or the causes which produceit.
In short, the author sincerely believes that to thefemale budding into womanhood,—to one about to becomea wife, or to the wife about becoming a mother,as well as to every one already a wife and a mother,as also to the female in the decline of years, in whomivnature contemplates an important change, the “MarriedWoman’s Private Medical Companion” containsinstructions of such paramount importance, as to embracethe present happiness and future welfare ofeach.
One word in conclusion. It is not pretended thatthe concentration of the results of medical researchemanates from one author, for be he ever so versed inmedical science, he would come far, far short of soherculean a task. I