Excerpt from Womanhood: Causes of Its Premature Decline, Respectfully Illustrated: Being a Review of the Changes and Derangements of the Female Constitution, a Safe and Faithful Guide to Mothers, During Gestation, Before and After Confinement, With Medical Advice of the Most Salutary and Important Nature to All FemalesIn surveying this beantiful structure, com plicated as it is mysterious, designed in the order of inatnre for acontinuoust'ransmission 05 our species to new generations, 'we see thefemaleform mane tied in health and youthful beauty, teeming With mirth, intelligence and' loveliness, at one moment, at another, we see the same form racked with the most excruciating tortures, groaningwith the_bitter est anguish, horror-striker), and distracted, sinking and faint from the lessor. Blood iatfanother moment, we behold her opening her boson}, treasuredwit'h nutritioirand comfort to her offspring in all the dim pied loveliness of innocence and infancy, her eye, beaming with kindness, _ watching the little stranger with solicitude, assiduity, and delight, at another time, we seeher pale, emaciated, languid, and fee hle, debilitated, restless, and sickly, withering na der the blast of wasting disease, like the vegetable kingdom, fromiwhich the frost has Just swept the bloom of health and verdure, she is gone - the litti group is motherless.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.