A HEARTLESS SURGEON.
The following from the Popular Science Monthly will not be credited by many of the fair sex: Many of the ills and diseases prevalent among women in our day are, no doubt, traceable to the sedentary mode of life so common among them. The progress of modern industrial art has done away with much of the household drudgery to which women were formerly subjected, and the result is in many cases want of sufficient occupation for needed bodily exercise. Tho fruits of this state of things are strikingly exhibited in certain observations made by the late Dr Robertson, a Manchester surgeon, .who, in his practice as a specialist for women's diseases, found that in women who themselves performed all their household work there is no trace of certain complaints; that these complaints begin to make their appearance in women with one servant, become more pronounced in. women who have two servants, or worse still with those who have three servants, and so on. He showed statistically that tho deaths from childbirth, were four times greater in the case of women with four servants than those with none.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3097, 21 January 1879, Page 2
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190A HEARTLESS SURGEON. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3097, 21 January 1879, Page 2
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