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102 the very primary law of human existence, and voluntarily seek to defeat God Almighty's great purpose, underlying their creation.

LXI. Balzac says:" He who begins with his wife by a rape is a lost man!" I say, it is next to impossible that she ever can love him after, as before! and I say this after a large medical practice of not less than thirty years. But most "Men" (?) not only begin thus, but keep it up—the fools!—and their name is legion!—till hatred, horror and disgust either kills her outright, or suggests an evil from which every true human shrinks.

LXII. Abortion at any stage from conception to birth is— in the first degree. It effectually kills the child, demoralizes the mother, destroys her moral and physical health, while living, and after death dooms, irrevocably, her and her assistants to the perpetual society of beyond the grave, from which doom there is no appeal. So beware of the crime.

LXIII. Circumstances may demand non-increase of family; therefore, avoid all risk forty-eight hours before, and one hundred after the Catamenial period. Avoid all risk after a return from a journey or temporary absence; and

LXIV. After the make up following an unpleasantness, tiff, spat or downright family quarrel, because the reaction creates not only increased affectional and procreative energy, but also a peculiar liability to the risk of unwished-for parentage, then especially.

LXV. Mental, moral, physical and domestic trouble, mutual magneto-vital exhaustion are easily preventable between couples if they will but sleep apart, have hard beds, good ventilation, never sleeping in day-worn under-clothes, and each magnetizing the other at the seven magnetic points of the human frame—sides, spine, throat, head, breast, and over the stomach.

LXVI. Superior men, whatever their rank or calling, are very attractive to women, as a general thing; therefore such men—as they are almost always very licentious—have great need of watchfulness and prayer; considerable prayer—but more watch!

LXVII. The true nature of any wife is quickly changed for the worse by the pigness and private brutalisms of their husbands;