E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/) Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. See http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4765412 +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been | | corrected in this text. For a complete list, please | | see the end of this document. | | | | This document has inconsistent hyphenation. | | | | Greek has been transliterated and marked with + marks | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+ SEX IN EDUCATION; Or, A Fair Chance for Girls. by EDWARD H. CLARKE, M.D., Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Late Professor of Materia Medica in Harvard College, Etc., Etc. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, (Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.) 1875. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Edward H. Clarke, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington Boston: Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co. "An American female constitution, which collapses just in the middle third of life, and comes out vulcanized India-rubber, if it happen to live through the period when health and strength are most wanted." OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_. "He reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it came before him, _womanhood_.... What a woman should demand is respect for her as she is a woman. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Winstanley, _to reverence her sex_." CHARLES LAMB: _Essays of Elia_. "We trust that the time now approaches when man's condition shall be progressively improved by the force of reason and truth, when the brute part of nature shall be crushed, that the god-like spirit may unfold." GUIZOT: _History of Civilization_, I., 34. CONTENTS. PART I. INTRODUCTORY 11 PART II. CHIEFLY PHYSIOLOGICAL 31 PART III.