@article{900037, recid = {900037}, author = {Dubois, Jean,}, title = {The secret habits of the female sex : letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude, and its seductive temptations to young girls, the premature victims of a pernicious passion, with all its frightful consequences : deformity of mind and body, destruction of beauty and entailing disease and death, but from which, by attention to the timely warnings here given, the devotee may be saved and become an ornament to society, a virtuous wife, and a refulgent mother! /}, pages = {1 online resource (185 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) :}, note = {"This work should be read by all classes; while it forcibly describes the misery attendant upon solitude, it prescribes a medical treatment and regimen which has never failed of success."}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/900037}, }