TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —Subscripts have been rendered as a_{b} [Illustration: JOHN A. MILLER, M. D.] 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. [Illustration] PREFATORY NOTE. The publication of this volume was suggested by the astonishing ignorance displayed and the antiquated ideas entertained upon questions of health and disease by most persons with whom I came in professional contact, even by those who were accomplished in other subjects of a scholastic and scientific nature. The practical importance of the subject naturally led me to the consideration of diseases that are essentially inflammatory, for over seventy-five per cent of all diseases of women are of an inflammatory nature. In this respect the book differs from other works on similar subjects. In discussing this class of diseases I have aimed to present a treatise simple in style, and easily understood by the casual reader. While I have endeavored to impart strictly scientific information, I have tried to impart it in familiar language, avoiding the use of technical terms as far as possible, and carefully defining them when their use became indispensable. JOHN A. MILLER, M.D. No. 1137 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. [Illustration] BY THE SAME AUTHOR. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND AN OUTLINE OF THE GERMAN SYSTEM. Essay read before the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of California, March, 1886. EROSIONS OF THE VAGINAL PORTION OF THE CERVIX, OR ULCERATION OF THE SAME PART. _Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal_, January, 1887.