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—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
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.
PREFATORY NOTE.
The publication of this volume was suggested by the astonishing ignorancedisplayed and the antiquated ideas entertained upon questionsof health and disease by most persons with whom I came in professionalcontact, even by those who were accomplished in other subjects of ascholastic and scientific nature. The practical importance of the subjectnaturally led me to the consideration of diseases that are essentially inflammatory,for over seventy-five per cent of all diseases of women are ofan inflammatory nature. In this respect the book differs from otherworks on similar subjects.
In discussing this class of diseases I have aimed to present a treatisesimple in style, and easily understood by the casual reader. While Ihave endeavored to impart strictly scientific information, I have tried toimpart it in familiar language, avoiding the use of technical terms as faras possible, and carefully defining them when their use became indispensable.
JOHN A. MILLER, M.D.
No. 1137 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal.
