Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t women havechildren that are viable or smart. Dr. Powell cites, as further personalillustrations of the sanguine, bilious, encephalic, and lymphatic combina-tion, Caius Julius Caesar, and Mr. Whitney, of New York, of Pacific andAtlantic Railroad notoriety, and also Alexander the Great. The non-professional reader, after giving the foregoing compound tempera-ments a cursory perusal, may come out at the end as confused as a man,who, lost in the woods, emerges therefrom with his imaginary points of com-pass all askew in their aspects to the sun. He may throw down the bookwith disgust—exclaim, Pshaw! Who in the world can ever obtain practicalknowledge of the temperaments? But sit down a minute; scratch yourhead a little; rub your brow; or, get up and stretch your arms and shoulders,and then quietly sit down again, and make up your mind to study thisthing. It must be remembered that to be a good reader of the tempera-ments, they must be thoroughly studied, and not simply perused once or
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NAPOLEON THE FIRST. The above represents the four combina-tions of temperament: the Sanguine, theBilious, the Encephalic, and Lymphatic. WHAT IS PHYSICAL ADAPTATION i 393 twice. Nor yet will study alone suffice; the descriptions well impressedupon the mind must be daily applied to the world full of moving beingsabout you. By these means only can one become proficient in deciding finepoints in a question of compatibility of those having the temperamentsmuch mixed or compounded; and it is for this reason that the means I shallrecommend for guarding the front door of marriage, should be instituted bythe advocates of the monogamic system of marriage at once. No time cansafely be lost. It is to be hoped that the science of temperaments may betaught in the schools, in the place of some of the namby-pamby accom-plishments, in order that young men and women may be able to judge forthemselves what unions are fit to be made; but, until an era of moregeneral knowledge upon these matters is reach

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