Searchlights on Health


 * Title page
 * Knowledge is Safety
 * The Beginning of Life
 * Health a Duty
 * Value of Reputation
 * Influence of Associates
 * Self-Control
 * Habit
 * A Good Name
 * The Mother's Influence
 * Home Power
 * To Young Women
 * Influence of Female Character
 * Personal Purity
 * How To Write All Kinds of Letters
 * How To Write a Love Letter
 * Forms of Social Letters
 * Letter Writing
 * Forms of Love Letters
 * Hints and Helps on Good Behavior at All Times and at All Places
 * A Complete Etiquette in a Few Practical Rules
 * Etiquette of Calls
 * Etiquette in Your Speech
 * Etiquette of Dress and Habits
 * Etiquette on the Street
 * Etiquette Between Sexes
 * Practical Rules on Table Manners
 * Social Duties
 * Politeness
 * Influence of Good Character
 * Family Government
 * Conversation
 * The Toilet or The Care of the Person
 * A Young Man's Personal Appearance
 * Dress
 * Beauty
 * Sensible Helps to Beauty
 * How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth
 * Form and Deformity
 * How to Determine a Perfect Human Figure
 * The History, Mystery, Benefits and Injuries of the Corset
 * Tight-Lacing
 * The Care of the Hair
 * How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions
 * Black-Heads and Flesh Worms
 * Love
 * The Power and Peculiarities of Love
 * Amativeness or Connubial Love
 * Love and Common Sense
 * What Women Love in Men
 * What Men Love in Women
 * History of Marriage
 * Marriage
 * The Advantages of Wedlock
 * The Disadvantages of Celibacy
 * Old Maids
 * When and Whom to Marry
 * Choose Intellectually—Love Afterward
 * Love-Spats
 * A Broken Heart
 * Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men
 * Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner
 * Safe Hints
 * Marriage Securities
 * Women Who Make the Best Wives
 * Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors
 * First Love, Desertion and Divorce
 * Flirting and Its Dangers
 * A Word to Maidens
 * Popping the Question
 * The Wedding
 * Advice to Newly Married Couples
 * Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties
 * How to Perpetuate the Honey-Moon
 * How to Be a Good Wife
 * How to Be a Good Husband
 * Cause of Family Troubles
 * Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure
 * The Improvement of Offspring
 * Too Many Children
 * Small Families and the Improvement of the Race
 * The Generative Organs
 * The Female Sexual Organs
 * The Mysteries of the Formation of Life
 * Conception—Its Limitations
 * Prenatal Influences
 * Vaginal Cleanliness
 * Impotence and Sterility
 * Producing Boys or Girls at Will
 * Abortion or Miscarriage
 * The Murder of Innocents
 * The Unwelcome Child
 * Health and Disease
 * Preparation for Maternity
 * Impregnation
 * Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy
 * Diseases of Pregnancy
 * Morning Sickness
 * Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy
 * A Private Word to the Expectant Mother
 * Shall Pregnant Women Work?
 * Words for Young Mothers
 * How to Have Beautiful Children
 * Education of the Child in the Womb
 * How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor
 * The Signs and Symptoms of Labor
 * Special Safeguards in Confinement
 * Where Did the Baby Come From?
 * Child Bearing Without Pain
 * Solemn Lessons for Parents
 * Ten Health Rules for Babies Cut Death Rate in Two
 * The Care of New-Born Infants
 * Nursing
 * Feeding Infants
 * Infantile Convulsions
 * Pains and Ills in Nursing
 * Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children
 * A Table for Feeding a Baby on Modified Milk
 * Nursing (Intervals Table)
 * Schedule for Feeding Healthy Infants During First Year (Table)
 * How to Keep a Baby Well
 * How to Preserve the Health and Life of Your Infant During Hot Weather
 * Infant Teething
 * Home Treatments for the Diseases of Infants and Children
 * Diseases of Women
 * Falling of the Womb
 * Menstruation
 * Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them
 * How to Cure Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy
 * Sensible Rules for the Nurse
 * Longevity
 * How to Apply and Use Hot Water in All Diseases
 * Practical Rules for Bathing
 * All the Different Kinds of Baths and How to Prepare Them
 * Digestibility of Food
 * How to Cook for the Sick
 * Save the Girls
 * Save the Boys
 * The Inhumanities of Parents
 * Chastity and Purity of Chracter
 * Exciting the Passions in Children
 * Puberty, Virility, and Hygenic Laws
 * Our Secret Sins
 * Physical and Moral Degeneracy
 * Immorality, Disease, and Death
 * Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures
 * Startling Sins
 * The Prostitution of Men
 * The Road to Shame
 * The Curse of Manhood
 * A Private Talk to Young Men
 * Remedies for the Social Evil
 * The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death
 * Object Lessons of the Effects of Alcohol and Smoking
 * The Destructive Effects of Cigarette Smoking
 * The Dangerous Vices
 * Nocturnal Emissions
 * Lost Manhood Restored
 * Manhood Wrecked and Rescued
 * The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases
 * Animal Magnetism
 * How to Read Character
 * Twilight Sleep
 * Painless Childbirth
 * The Diseases of Women
 * Remedies for Diseases of Women
 * Index (omitted)