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Excerpt from Transactions of the Forty-Third Session of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania: Held at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, September 6, 7, and 8, 1906 The introduction of physiology into the public schools was Op posed because it was said that it would not prevent the evil of ln temperance but would demoralize youth. Time has demonstrated that knowledge so acquired in a proper and legitimate way is not hurtful but helpful, and time will demonstrate that greater knowl edge of the sexual organism and relations imparted to children by proper instruction and proper persons will protect them from many and grievous evils in which their ignorance might otherwise involve them. The coming physician should be better prepared in our medical colleges to instruct the public on this subject. Some of our medical societies have very fully discussed the matter, and several of our most competent writers and teachers strongly advocate teaching sexual hygiene in public schools. Since our last meeting a great disaster has fallen upon San Francisco and vicinity, reducing a number of our professional breth ren to destitution; the magnitude of the misfortune had hardly been ashed over the land when measures were taken to give helpful expression to the sympathy aroused. The response was both prompt and generous. 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 st