Dr. Foote's new plain home talk on love, marriage, and parentage. A…

"....about the human system - the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social nature, embracing Medical Common Sense etc etc etc" Medical common sense is very far from the contents of this extraordinary book. Dr Foote believes an electrical fluid passes between male and female during ordinary conversation, the absence of which proves fatal to young females: that eating pork is at the root of all our medical problems: that it is almost impossible to get pregnant unless you do it ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Diagrams are offered of how to get it absolutely right, but you have to send off for them separately and they arrived in a Oisin cover. Tragically, none came with my copy.

Dr Foote is an American. The impressed mark on the front cover reads "A book for PRIVATE considerate reading. The tone throughout is portentous. ( )