  A Guide to Girlhood, By Dr. H. LANG GORDON Size, 6 × 8¾; 278 pages; fully illustrated.Price, $2.00 This work marks in its own line the opening of a new epoch. Hitherto such works have been devoted to treatment and a study of the abnormal; here these subjects yield precedence to prevention and a common-sense exposition of the normal. The author, imbued with the spirit of modern preventive medicine, points out the errors and abuses of modern life (so easily avoided and yet so easily yielded to) which affect injuriously the health of women and children. At the same time he clearly assists the mother and others to understand the physiology of womanhood and motherhood, the care of the infant and young girl and the detection and treatment of common complaints. The subjects of heredity, environment, education and schools, the home-training of children, the physical development of the body and the position of woman in modern life, are among the topics of the day which are touched upon in a new light in this concisely written book. Each of its three sections, Girlhood, Motherhood and Infancy, provides the mother, the schoolmistress, and the intelligent nurse with a fascinating and easily understood guide and high ideals. R. F. FENNO & COMPANY 18 East 17th StreetNEW YORK |
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