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BOOKS OF THE MONTH. 141
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Books Op The Month. The Medical Professi...
on the northern side of [ London , and are at too great a distance to
"be available for the treatment of residents in even the nearest parts of the citon the Surrey side of the river .
Dr . La y dd , gives a case of fatal injury incurred by an effort to go from Lambeth to the Brompton Hospital for relief ; and mentions
that he has many such on record . In fact , he puts it beyond a doubtthat South London wants special institutions for the
treatment , of consumption , asthma , and other diseases of the respiratory organs ; and we trust that the faith expressed in the following "
paragrap " We h cannot may not arrest be disappointed in their car : eer all the injurious processes
that we perceive around us , and put an end to them ; but we can stop short some of the budding blossoms , and prevent their
ripening " into The full benevolence -grown disaster of London . " is not behindhand in this respect . conceivable form of
Our noble institutions for the relief of every human suffering , attest this characteristic of our national heart .
Let our intelligence be but convinced of a want , and our instinct is to supply it . " from the
hi Dr hest . Ladd medical gives authorities a number of on very the valuable curability quotations of lung and chest disease g . These are from books , rarely accessible to noil-professional
readersand seldom seen by women , to whom they are peculiarly , important The female . sex is particularlinterested in this subject , by reason
y th of an the men unhappy die of this fact devastating that , as our scourge author ; " remarks and we : full " More y agree women with
him in thinking that , " The much-talked of improvement in their education has not yet resulted in procuring them the least
advanmust tage lead to be in the very the practice item sparing of of ly health the imparted princi ; " and to les the that that sex , modern , " H yg must ienic science be information harder professes to
to inculcatethan even the porcine p race ; for it continues the most mischievous , proceedings in the teeth of argument , exhortation , and
punishment . " Dr . Ladd asserts a sad truth when he says : " The fashions maintain their rule in spite even of death /"
Bare necks and crinoline he comments on most severely , and cites eminent physicians against popular feminine transgressions of the
Laws of health . lied 55 According in this and country to that our author from most consump , females in 1860 tion died , 4 , , 081 between at the more females the of ages 15 than ? of and 15 male most and s age
years ; tnales at 25 .
Books Of The Month. 141
BOOKS OF THE MONTH . 141
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/69/
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