Influence Of Dress In Producing The Physical Decadence Of American Women

Author : John Harvey Kellogg
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ISBN 13 : 9781331955986
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Dress in Producing the Physical Decadence of American Women written by John Harvey Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Influence of Dress in Producing the Physical Decadence of American Women: Annual Address Upon Obstetrics and Gynecology ["Annual Address upon Obstetrics and Gynecology," delivered before the Michigan State Medical Society at the Annual Meeting held at Saginaw, June 11 and 12, 1891. Illustrated by a stereopticon.] As my subject suggests, I am to undertake to show that certain features of the mode of dress common among civilized American women have been, and are, a prominent factor in producing a widespread and marked physical deterioration among the women of this country. Possibly the question may be asked whether such a deterioration exists. It is not probable, however, that it will be worth while to spend any considerable time in attempting to demonstrate the proposition that American women are degenerating physically, before an audience made up chiefly of medical men and women; for has there been a medical convention dinner within the last quarter of a century at which there was not heard the familiar toast, "Woman - God's best gift to man, and the chief support of the doctors"? A few months ago, I addressed an audience of six or seven hundred young women at an educational center in a neighboring State, upon the subject of physical culture. As my audience seemed to be an amiable one, I ventured to ask a few questions, and among other inquiries, asked how many women present (all of whom had reached adult age) believed themselves to be physically superior to their mothers. 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.