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 bosom. The presence of diseased magnetism or vitiated blood aura is the prolific source of six-tenths of the diseases of Christendom; to it can be safely laid nearly all the ills, social, marital, physical, moral, emotional, and intellectual, of the Christian world. Why sang Fatima the song she did? Why? because of the purity of this blood-fire, or magnetic aura in nerves, and heart, and brain, and the consequent health of the soul. For if it be roasted or diseased, dire inflammations, moral, intellectual, and physical, are sure to follow. It is liable to chill and fever, clearness and turbidity. If it be kept pure and healthy, there's but little danger to girls or women, because they are Vir-tous, that is, strong. It is not too much to say that four-fifths of married American women are painfully disordered; nor that the causes thereof may be found in what passes for their —homes! nor that nine-tenths of the bickerings and domestic bells on earth have their origin in the senseless stupidity of their husbands, cures for which have been sought for in divorce courts, but without avail; for, out of one trouble into a worse, generally follows as a result. My object in writing this is to show woman a higher law than those of States, and to urge her to appeal hereafter to the Courts of Health and Common Sense, by clearly revealing Love and its Hidden Mystery. Pelvic inflammation is the national disease, for in its train follows all others, from nervous agitation to wild and hopeless delirium. Secret vice and open crime are quite as much diseases as moral sins; and millions there be who are victims thereunto. Under the dreadful passional spell man forgets honor and woman loses shame; the one becomes pale, fickle, vacillating, — false even to her sworn oath at the altar; and the other a helpless, shattered wreck at forty years of are. The one goaded on to voluntary, semi-unconscious self-murder by inflamed blood; the other ruined by excess and libertinism. And out of both grow the great modern crimes; especially that of infanticide, — a horror easily preventable, as I intend to show.

In all our large cities there are scores of shameless wretches, vile abortionists, male and female, in my opinion fit candidates for the gyves or gallows, who flaunt their dreadful trade of child-destroying barefacedly to the world; who advertise liberally in the public journals, informing people where they can get