AKE, M.D.

Condensed Table of Contents

KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMACTERIC NECESSARY

Why women are not prepared to meet the climacteric--The fear
that unnerves many--Error of views concerning "Change of
Life"--Correct teaching stated--Influence of medical
literature--Three periods in a woman's life--Relation of early
habits to later aches and ills--The menopause--Conditions
which influence the period of the climacteric--The age
at-which it usually appears--Effects of heredity--Childless
women--Mothers of large families--Effects of different
occupations--Excesses.

HERALDS OF CHANGE--DISEASES AND REMEDIES

Mental states during menopause--Change in blood
currents--Flushes, chilliness, dizziness, etc.--Nervous
symptoms--Disturbed mental and nervous equilibriums--Nature as
woman's helper--Troublesome ailments--Mental troubles
considered--Suggested help--Cancer--Benefits
named--Apprehensions dispelled--How to banish
worry--Simplifying daily duty--An eminent physician's
prescription--A word to single women--Reluctance of unmarried
women to meet the menopause--How to prolong one's youth--Dress
during this period--The mother "At Sea"--Guarding against
becoming gloomy--Effects of patent medicine advertising--Drug
fiends--Lustful indulgence.

WHAT BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE SHOULD REMEMBER

Slights and inattentions keenly felt by her--Need of
patience--A word of private counsel--Value of little
attentions--Wife's duty to her husband--Holding husband's
affections--Making home attractive--Unselfishness.

AUTO-SUGGESTION AND OTHER SUGGESTIONS

Influence of mind over body--The mind as a curative agent--How
to rise out of depression--Mental philosophy and physical
betterment--Relation of health to sight--Care of the
teeth--The hair--Constipation--Self cure--Choice of
foods--Exercise--Physical development--Exercise of mind and
soul.

"What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know"

PRAISED BY THE PRESS

"Will dispel apprehensions aroused by groundless
forebodings."--_Reformed Church Messenger._

"If the hygienic advice in this book is followed it will
lengthen the lives of women and make their closing years the
happiest and most useful of all,"--_Herald and Presbyter._

"In no line of literature, perhaps, is such a book so much
needed."--_New Haven Leader._