Sexual Hygiene: Compiled from Books, Articles and Documents, Many not Hitherto Published by the Editorial Staff of the Alkaloidal Clinic.

[ABBOTT, Wallace C.]

Published by Chicago: The Clinic Publishing Co, Chicago, 1901.

About this Item

296 pp. Original Cloth. Rear cover lightly soiled, but still Near Fine. First Edition. The topics covered: Preface; Preliminary Considerations; The Physicians' Club; Religion and Love; Sexual Frauds; Sexual Excess; The Effect of Coitus During Pregnancy and Lactation; Sex Problems in Education; Legal Aspects; Educational Aspects; Editorial Resume; Woman Sexually; Imperfect Development of the Female Sexual Organs; Affections of the Male Sexual Organs Causing Impotence; Continence; Masturbation; Incomplete or Delayed Intercourse; Frequency of Intercourse; Prevention of Conception; Married Courtship; Posture; Artificial Fecundation; Management of Pregnancy; Diet to Influence Labor; Maternal Impressions; Determination of Sex; Restriction of Marriage; Sexuality Must Not Dominate; Zola's Last Novel, "Fecondité". "The Alkaloidal Clinic" was a medical journal, not a clinic. It was "A Monthly Journal Devoted to Accuracy in Therapeutics, with Practical Suggestions Relating to the Clinical Application of the Same." The editor and publisher was Dr. Wallace C. Abbott. Abbott also had a pharmaceutical company in Chicago, Abbott Alkaloidal Co., which became Abbott Laboratories in 1914. Abbott is a major pharmaceutical company today. OCLC locates copies of the 1901 first printing in these US libraries: Bowling Green, Chicago, Cornell, Leather Archives & Museum (which is what you think it is), Library Company of Philadelphia, North Carolina, College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This is the first printing with 1901 on the title page. There is also a later printing with 1902 on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sexual Hygiene: Compiled from Books, Articles and Documents, Many not Hitherto Published by the Editorial Staff of the Alkaloidal Clinic.
• Publisher: Chicago: The Clinic Publishing Co, Chicago, 1901.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine