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19G ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
a physiological regimen, is rendered speedy, and almost
entirely painless.
The pain of any organic action is caused by disease.
Where there is no disease, there can be no pain. There
is no reason why the contractions of the uterus may
not be as painless as those of the bladder; and where
this organ is in perfect health, they are so. All that a
woman wants to secure a painless labor is perfect health,
and free from
und her labors will be free from pain,
daqger, just in proportion as she becomes a healthy
being.
Of the conditions of health, the causes of disease,
mode of cure, and the special treatment of women in
childbirth, see under their appropriate sections.
CHAPTER XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
As I wish to make this book full and explicit on all the
subjects to which it relates, that it may serve its pur
pose, and save me, as far as possible, from all further
trouble of answering the questions of correspondents, I
make this brief appendix to what I have already written
on the Function of Generation. I wish also to be un
derstood in regard to the measure of responsibility that
belongs to me. When I state the opinions of another,
I am not to be understood as endorsing them, unless I
do so in express terms. Further, when I give facts or