Excerpt from Prostitution Considered in Relation, to Its Cause Its Cure The following pages were, by request, contributed to the Review Department of the Edinburgh Medical Journal. It has been thought that, published in a separate form, they may be of service in helping to leaven the community at large with sounder views than are by many entertained on the painful and pressing subject of which they treat. The writer having been asked to put his name on the title-page, has not felt at liberty to decline that responsibility; and will only say, in explanation, that nothing but a strong sense of duty could have induced him to undertake the task, in any form while it is the hope of being able in some degree to meet an urgent want of the present day, that alone emboldens him to put forth what is avowedly but a faint and feeble sketch of a large and terrible picture. His outline may be meagre, and his colouring imperfect; but both are believed to be true - too true - 40 nature, so far as they go. At some points, too, the pencilling may perhaps seem coarse, and the brush laid too broadly on; but it was feared that by no other mode of handling could a true or impressive representation of the stern facts be conveyed and it was felt that questions of taste and style ought to give way to the requirements of duty and of truth. 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.