Chapter 7

DISEASES OF WOMEN

Diseases of women--The beginning of female disease--Ailing women are inefficient--as home-makers, as wife, as mother--_Few ailing women become pregnant_--The chief cause of female disease--The existence of the average mother--Female diseases are avoidable--The story of the wife--Women who don't want children--Abuse of the procreative function--What the woman with female disease should do--Cancer in women--Cancer of the breast--Cancer of the womb--What every woman should know about cancer--Change of life--The menopause--The climacteric--The average age at which the change of life occurs--Symptoms of the change of life--Importance of a correct diagnosis--Danger signals of the change of life--Conduct during the change of life ... PAGE 433

THE PATENT MEDICINE EVIL