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Femina, A Work for Every Woman

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A medically trained practitioner offers a practical, plain-language guide to women's health that emphasizes inflammatory disorders and domestic care. It explains female anatomy and physiology, menstrual and reproductive processes, common urinary and genital inflammations, pelvic and ovarian conditions, prolapse and uterine displacements, pregnancy and confinement, and illnesses of infants and children. Causes such as poor hygiene, marital excess, and illegal abortion are examined alongside preventive hygiene, simple home treatments, emergency measures, dietary advice, and selected therapeutic approaches including electrical methods. Technical terms are minimized and defined to make scientific information accessible to lay readers.

FEMINA,


A WORK FOR EVERY WOMAN

ILLUSTRATED.


A perfect woman, nobly plann’d,
To warn, to comfort and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright,
With something of an angel light.

Wordsworth.


——BY——

JOHN A. MILLER, M. D.

Graduate Medical Department University of California, also holding
Credentials from the Universities of Berlin and
Heidelberg, Germany.


SAN FRANCISCO,
THE FEMINA COMPANY,
1893.


Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1893
BY JOHN A. MILLER,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
at Washington, D. C.


TO
THE LATE
DR. CARL SCHROEDER,
PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF WOMEN
IN THE FREDERICK WILLIAM UNIVERSITY, BERLIN
MY TEACHER AND FRIEND.