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Dedication
Add to this, that extreme fastidiousness which not only excludes needful instruction from the pulpit, but makes mothers shrink from learning and teaching those dangers which their daughters most need to know, and prevents medical men and even women physicians from uttering needful warnings.
I once said to a lady physician with an enormous practice, in reply to some of her statements, "why do you not call the mothers of this city together and tell them all this ?" She replied "it is impossible — they would not hear me — I should have to nail the doors and windows to keep them — and if they did hear, they would not believe."
It is the women teachers of our common schools who must be instructed to become lecturers on health in all our school districts and teach mothers how to instruct children in all tlie laws of health and the dreadful penalties which in certain directions are but little known and now threaten the ruin of the rising generation. There is no duty more difficult than this ; for it is one which if done properly saves from danger, and if improperly leads to it.
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