CHAPTER VII.

DEFECTS AND DEFICIENCIES.

Apprehensions awakened.--Foolish and injurious expedients resorted to.--Actual impotence not frequent.--Consult only intelligent and conscientious physicians.--How to remove the apprehension.--Defects and deficiencies even less prevalent among females than among males.--Importance of proper treatment of the bride.--Rareness of deformity and abnormal conditions.--Weakness and diseased condition of the womb frequent among women.--No woman with serious womb trouble should marry.--How actual conditions can be accurately and properly determined, 103