IV, 615.

Wife, her part, III, 353; the cheerful, III, 400; the indifferent, III,
401; what she owes to herself, III, 357.

Wifehood, first weeks and months of, III, 336.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, on education, I, 23.

Womb, function of, II, 180; how baby gets nourishment in, II, 183; how held
in place, II, 189.

Women, ailing, are inefficient, III, 434; diseases of, III, 433; who don't
want children, III, 439; medicine concern run by, III, 475; most popular,
III, 365; use of patent medicines in diseases, III, 473.

Work, must be interesting, III, 351.

Working for something, III, 395.

Worms, intestinal, IV, 548; round, IV, 548; symptoms of tape, IV, 551;
symptoms of thread, IV, 549; tape, IV, 551; thread, IV, 549; treatment of
round, IV, 549.

Worry, freedom from, III, 348.

Wound, cleaning a, IV, 637; closing and dressing a, IV, 637; removal of
foreign bodies from, IV, 636.

Wounds, IV, 634; of the scalp, IV, 640.

X-Ray, treatment and diagnosis, IV, 652.

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VOLUME I

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EUGENICS. RACE CULTURE

CHAPTER I

CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE EVOLVED THE SCIENCE OF EUGENICS

Infant mortality--Marriage and
motherhood--Heredity--Environment--Education--Disease and
vice--History--Summary ... PAGE 1

CHAPTER II

THE EUGENIC IDEA

The value of human life--The eugenic principle--"The fit only shall
live"--Eugenics and marriage--The venereal diseases--The utility of
marriage certificates--The marriage certificates and vice--Eugenics and
parenthood--The principle of heredity--Eugenics and motherhood--Eugenics
and the husband ... PAGE 9

CHAPTER III

EUGENICS AND EDUCATION

The present educational system is inadequate--Opinions of Dr. C.W. Saleeby,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Luther Burbank, William D. Lewis, Elizabeth Atwood,
Dr. Thomas A. Story, William C. White, Dr. Helen C. Putnam--Difficulty in
devising a satisfactory educational system--Education an important
function--The function of the high school--The high school system
fallacious--The true function of education ... PAGE 21

CHAPTER IV

EUGENICS AND THE UNFIT

The deaf and dumb--The feeble-minded--A New York magistrate's
report--Report of the Children's Society--The segregation and treatment of
the feeble-minded--What the care of the insane costs--The
alcoholic--Drunkenness