Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty.
- Orson S. Fowler
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![or whether ye will forbear. I have done my duty, and done it faithfully, yet tenderly. Woman, do yours, b) looking this truth fairly in the face. ] know i shall put you in an awful predicament, be- cause so few women have any pelvic developments left, and wTould appear so ridiculously if the form of their dress corresponded with that of their persons; and also, because they will now be ashamed to make believe in a delicate situation, just to appear interesting, for this will now press upon the corns of their modesty. The dilemma is indeed inexpressibly trying ; but it will turn the current of female attention toward actually enlarg- ing her abdominal organs, instead of making them seem large by dressing thus; and no good will ever bless our race at all to compare with this, as no evil approximates toward this injury to the female consequent on dressing thus. COTTON AND PLAITED BREASTWORKS. The great law involved in our subject, that woman pads and bustles off those very parts which child-bear- ing enlarges, shows why she pads and finnifies her breasts. Their full development facilitates one part of the maternal relations—the nourishment of the infant. Man admires fullness here because it promotes mater- nity, and woman, instinctively as well as experimentally conscious of such admiration, pads, and plaits, and fixes off these parts with her utmost ingenuity. Woman, shame on you, to make believe so much where you are so little ! And the fact that American women generally are so flat-breasted, shows how miserable their maternal qualifications. Fullness here, besides indicating good nursing qualifications, as such, also betokens a vigorous female apparatus m genera Other things being the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024273_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
