Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= IS IT I? A BOOK FOR EVERY MAN. A COMPANION TO WHY NOT? A BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN. BY PROF. HORATIO ROBINSON STORER, M.D., OF BOSTON, Vice-President of the American Medical Association. _Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto._ TERENCE. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. _Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 4 Spring Lane._ TO DR. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, OF NEW YORK, Surgeon to the State Woman’s Hospital; ONE OF THE ONLY TWO PURELY UTERINE SPECIALISTS AS YET PRACTISING IN AMERICA;[1] The Pupil and Successor of Marion Sims, AND HIMSELF, AS AN OPERATOR, HIS GREAT MASTER’S MORE THAN EQUAL. MY DEAR DR. EMMET: The little “Why Not?” of the American Medical Association is having so large a sale that my publishers have besought me to write a book for men, to cover ground that I had left untouched, relating to the causation and prevention of various forms of uterine disease. Many physicians and many lady patients have desired me to do the same thing, and I have yielded to their advice. Our friend Dr. Brown-Séquard permitted me to dedicate the second edition of the former book to himself, kindly saying that he deemed it something more than a compliment. At the outset I was uncertain of success, and so the first edition went without sponsor. In allowing me, in the case of the book now in press, thus to manifest my personal esteem for yourself, and my appreciation of your many contributions to the advancement of our science, you will become my coadjutor in this attempt to preserve women from bodily and mental anguish, from disease and from crime. Yours, ever sincerely, HORATIO R. STORER. BOSTON, June 3, 1867. CONTENTS. PAGE PREFATORY REMARKS 7 I. It is not Good to be Alone 17 II. Marriage as a Sanitary Measure 35 III. How Early in Life is Marriage to be Advised? 68 IV. The Rights of the Husband 87 V. Are these Rights Absolute, or Reciprocal, with Duties 99 VI. Should mere Instinct, or Reason, be the Rule? 111 VII. Arguments and Counter Arguments as to Divorce 118 VIII. A Plea for Woman 127 APPENDIX.—A Woman’s View of “Why Not?” 149 PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.