ny case
whatever, except in cases of deformity or disease.

2. If the parties of a marriage are both feeble and so adapted to each
other that their children are deformed, insane or idiots, then to beget
offspring would be a flagrant wrong; if the mother's health is in such a
condition as to forbid the right of laying the burden of motherhood upon
her, then medical aid may safely come to her relief. If the man, however,
respects his wife, he ought to come to her relief without the counsel of a
physician. {241}

3. FORBEARANCE.--Often before the mother has recovered from the effects of
bearing, nursing and rearing one child, ere she has regained proper tone
and vigor of body and mind, she is unexpectedly overtaken, surprised by the
manifestation of symptoms which again indicate pregnancy. Children thus
begotten cannot become hardy and long-lived. By the love that parents may
feel for their posterity, by the wishes for their success, by the hopes for
their usefulness, by every consideration for their future well-being, let
them exercise precaution and forbearance until the wife becomes
sufficiently healthy and enduring to bequeath her own rugged, vital stamina
to the child she bears in love.

4. IMPOSTORS.--During the past few years hundreds of books and pamphlets
have been written on the subject, claiming that new remedies had been
discovered for the prevention of conception, etc., but these are all money
making devices to deceive the public, and enrich the pockets of miserable
and unprincipled impostors.

5. THE FOLLIES OF PREVENTION.--Dr. Pancoast, an eminent authority, says:
"The truth is, there is no medicine taken internally capable of preventing
conception, and the person who asserts to the contrary, not only speaks
falsely, but is both a knave and a fool. It is true enough that remedies
may be taken to produce abortion after conception occurs; but those who
prescribe and those who resort to such desperate expedients, can only be
placed in the category of lunatics and assassins!"

6. PATENT MEDICINES.--If nature does not promptly respond, there are many
patent medicines which when taken at the time the monthly flow is to begin,
will produce the desired result. Let women beware; for it is only a
question of a few years when their constitution, complexion, and health
will be a sorry evidence of their folly. The woman who continually takes a
drug to prevent conception, cannot retain her natural complexion; her eyes