The Contagious Diseases Acts (Women) from a sanitary point of view. Pt. 2 / by Charles Bell Taylor.

  • Taylor, Charles Bell, 1829-1909
Date:
1870
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Credit: The Contagious Diseases Acts (Women) from a sanitary point of view. Pt. 2 / by Charles Bell Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS (WOMEN,) FROM A SANITARY POINT OF VIEW: SHOWING HOW AND WHY SUCH DESPOTIC MEASURES NOT ONLY FAIL TO REPRESS VENEREAL DISEASE, BUT TEND TO INCREASE ITS MOST SERIOUS MANIFESTATIONS. CONTAINING THE SUBSTANCE OF A PAPER READ BEFORE THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, JAN. 17th, 1870. BY CHARLES BELL TAYLOR, M.H., F.R.C.S.E., FELL. MED. SOC., LOND., LATE PRESIDENT PARISIAN MEDICAL SOCIETY. PART II. The state maxim of the wisest of the Greeks was this :—“An injustice to the meanest citizen is an insult to the whole community.” “ Grant that women who trade in their persons are the meanest of citizens, they do not cease to be citizens, much Jess to be women. It is not only becoming in us—it is our absolute duty—to be indignant, and loudly* to declare our indignation, at the indecent, depraving, and barbarous treat¬ ment to which certain women are now subjected, as well as at the overthrow of legal safeguards for all women.” “When bodily instrumental outrage is inflicted on females, no man with a heart in him will speak of it softly. Women—nay, wives and women who recently have been or are about to be mothers! Such violation of the person is an intrinsic wickedness—an indefensible atrocity. Legislation is desecrated, Parliament is dishonoured, resistance becomes nature's own command, when such things are enacted.”—Professor Newman. LONDON: TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND, Nottingham : Banks, Bookseller. 1870. PRICE, ONE SHILLING. 7