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ASHTON, James

ASHTON, James

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source State Library of South Australia · Cropped from collections.slsa.sa.gov.au . · Public domain

1859 CE

#7720

The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married: on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth.

Possibly the most enlightened, and detailed book on sex, reproduction, and contraception published during this period; illustrated in color. In addition to outlining the era's five most reliable methods of contracepti…