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John Harvey Kellogg

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 337 pages

A collection of essays on health and hygiene by John Harvey Kellogg, published in the late nineteenth century. Written for general readers, it discusses sexuality, moral conduct, and bodily care in its time. It is worth listening to as a historical document that illuminates the medical and social attitudes of the era.

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sanitorium
The Sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.,
October, 1879.
Dr. Kellog
PLAIN FACTS
FOR
OLD AND YOUNG.
BY

J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.,

MEMBER AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION,

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE,

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROSCOPY,

MEMBER MICH. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH,

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM,

AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS WORKS ON HEALTH, ETC.

PUBLISHED BY

SEGNER & CONDIT,

BURLINGTON, IOWA.

1881.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by

J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

PREFACE.

The publishers of this work offer no apology for

presenting it to the reading public, since the wide prevalence of the evils which it exposes is sufficient warrant for its publication. The subjects with which it deals are of vital consequence to the human race; and it is of the utmost importance that every effort should be made to dispel the gross ignorance which almost universally prevails, by the wide diffusion, in a proper manner, of information of the character contained in this volume.

This book has been written not for the young only, nor for any single class of persons, but for all who are old enough to be capable of understanding and appreciating it.

The prime object of its preparation has been to call attention to the great prevalence of sexual excesses of all kinds, and the heinous crimes resulting from some forms of sexual transgression, and to point out the terrible results which inevitably follow the violation of sexual law.

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Contents

  1. PLAIN FACTS
  2. OLD AND YOUNG.
  3. J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.,
  4. PREFACE.
  5. CONTENTS.
  6. INTRODUCTION.
  7. SEX IN LIVING FORMS.
  8. THE SEXUAL RELATIONS.
  9. CHASTITY.
  10. CONTINENCE.
  11. MARITAL EXCESSES.
  12. PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION:
  13. INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION.
  14. THE SOCIAL EVIL.
  15. SOLITARY VICE.
  16. A CHAPTER FOR BOYS.
  17. A CHAPTER FOR GIRLS.
  18. INDEX.
  19. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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