ca. 1926.]. 8vo, pp. 48; with numerous illustrations; lightly browned and foxed throughout, with some minor edgewear, and a few pencil doodlings; stapled as issued in the original grey printed wrappers, detached and loose, covers a little creased and soiled; otherwise good. Later variant revised issue of a separately printed pamphlet which whilst available for separate purchase, was also offered free with the book ‘Vitalogy’. The larger work was first published in 1899, penned originally by George Wood and Edward Harris Ruddock. It was to go through several editions. This small supplement is usually ascribed to Horace Conger, however, and certainly by this later issue it is his name, together with Caroline P. Crane, that is on the title-page. It no longer includes the section entitled ‘Prevention of Pregnancy’.
‘In this illustrated pamphlet Conger very briefly describes the anatomy of the male and female sexual organs: the relation of constipation to “involuntary seminal emisions”... fetal development; the relation of constipation to sickness during pregnancy; prolapsus uteri; and several methods for preventing pregnancy’ (Atwater S-283). Atwater suggests that Conger was the original author of ‘Vitalogy’ and seems not to be aware of the Wood and Ruddock publication.