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38 "Many married people will give themselves up to the embrace daily, often more than once, and that for years, But not only its frequency, but the manner in which it is performed, are so unnatural and studiously licentious that the most desperate cases of paralysis and epilepsy are frequently the direct and immediate result. Locomotor ataxia and palsy, too, often follow in its wake."— ''A. T. Reinhold, Ph. D., M. D''.

"Woman is the final umpire as to its frequency. Following her lead will usually conduct all to matrimonial harmony; ignoring it, to discord. Only a healthy one, however, will decide right. A husband who tenderly loves a delicate wife will find no difficulty in being continent, because he loves her too well to subject her to what would be injurious. Attempts have been made by legislators and divines to fix definitely a limit to the conjugal approaches which should be binding upon all, but this is evidently impracticable. Generally speaking the hygienic rule is, that after the act the person should