Excerpt from Letters to Married Ladies There can be no question but thousands of. Valuable lives are yearly sacrificed by the injudicious prescriptions Of ignorant women. Is it conjectured their nostrums are harmless and innocent, and if they can do no good, they certainly can do no harm? I tell you nay -we have no authority for considering any prescription, how ever gentle and mild, as harmless and inoffensive for if it offends in no other way, it does'by taking the place Of a more active remedy, and thereby passively becomes the cause of unmeasured mischief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.