Book on the Physician Himself

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. When you are importuned to produce abortion, on the plea of hiding from the world the yet-undiscovered guilt and saving the poor girl's character, or preventing her sister's heart from being broken, or her father from discovering her misfortune...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. When you are importuned to produce abortion, on the plea of hiding from the world the yet-undiscovered guilt and saving the poor girl's character, or preventing her sister's heart from being broken, or her father from discovering her misfortune and committing murder or suicide, or him who has taken criminal advantage of her from being (sic) disgraced, or to avert the shame that would fall on the family, or the church scandal about one of the weak brethren; or, in cases where there is no previous guilt, to limit the number of children for married people who already have as many as they want, or who are just married and do not want the inconvenience of them so soon, or to accommodate ladies who assert that they are too sickly to have children, or that their suckling child is too young to be weaned, or that they have been pregnant only a short time, or to avoid other anticipated evils, etc., etc., even though it be only the size of a mustard seed, you should not stop to discuss the subject lengthily with a h'm and a haw, but should meet all such entreaties and solicitations with a refusal prompt, strong, and positive, and never let yourself appear to entertain the proposition. If they are too importunate, express your sentiments in unmistakable language, and with plain, American frankness, bow them out, but remember that these are terrible secrets, and seal your lips doubly tight. It is always safe to do right, and never safe to do wrong. How could any one but an idiot, or an utterly unprincipled man, be induced to stain his hands and his heart by committing a crimson crime; to violate both his moral conscience and the criminal law; to risk exposure, social disgrace, and professional ruin for himself an...