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Excerpt from Philip's Wife: A Play in Three Acts
What ought we to do? Frequently we doctors learn that a young man is going to marry, when we know that he ought not to marry. We can warn him, if he gives us the chance. We can point out to him the risk, the almost complete certainty that he will wreck the girl's life but if he chooses to disregard our advice, we are powerless. We can't tell; for a confession to a doctor is as secret and as binding as a confession to a priest. And, if we were to tell, we should be liable to an action at law which would end in heavy damages against us, and, quite likely, professional ruin. There ought to be some way out, some way of pre venting girls from plunging blindfold into a sea of misery. I imagine no one will deny that marriage does mean misery to numbers of women - the women who, almost at once, develop bad health; the women who bear dead baby after dead baby, or babies that are born only to sicken and die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
