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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
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ism. The pride ofaristocracy often steps in between the young women of wealth andthose young men of little money, but much virtue, who would gladlyassociate with them ; while the young men pecuniarily able to move inthe social sphere of the former, are, in a great majority of instances, at-tracted to association with those with whom their money will pur-chase the most unlimited privileges. As a rule, having quite too fewexceptions, young men of wealth are given to habits of dissipationand licentiousness which disqualify them for association with therespectable daughters of affluent parents, and consequently, if the SEXUAL STARVATION. 169 latter have the pride of caste common to people of this class, theirdaughters are deprived of the society of men, and, with all theiradvantage of position and material comfort, must suffer from sexualstarvation. Occasionally, we hear of men effecting great cures by the lay-ing on of hands, and the response is often playfully made, i; Pshaw f Efer. 52.
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SOCIAL MAGNETISM. He only cures women! While this is not strictly true, and whilethe male magnopath sometimes effects cures by imparting ins healthymagnetism to a debilitated person of his own sex, it is neverthe-less a fact that a majority of his cures are effected in cases of women;the simple reason for which is, that the want of masculine magnetismled to the nervous derangements, which, in turn, produced the diseases8 170 CAUSES OF NERYOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. from which they seek relief. In any given case we may not alwaysfind the invalid to be a single woman. She may be the wife of asickly man, who generates scarcely enough magnetism to keep hisown vital machinery in motion, and if he give off any, it is of anunvitalized quality; she may be the wife of a husband who is mag-netically repulsive to her; the husband and wife may be so muchalike in temperament, that the forces each generates have, by yearsof contact, become similar in character or quality. In any such case,if the w

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