The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson.

  • Johnson, Walter, M.B, approximately 1825-1913?
Date:
1850
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Credit: The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as luggage-porters to the passengers who land at this port. I have seen women carrying to a dis- tance a load heavier than I should have thought it possible for the strongest man to support. These women having to go sometimes a con- siderable distance into the sea, usually wear gar- ments shorter than would be considered respect- able in an opera-dancer. Their legs, thus revealed to view, astonish the beholder. They would excite the envy of a coal-porter or a foot- man. Such a mass of muscle is strangely dis- cordant to the general idea of feminine delicacy, so much so, that a gentleman once maintained that these daughters of the wave ought to be classed as a third sex, which he proposed to call Amphibio-femaleT The fact, however, proves, that when we speak of the delicacy and susceptibility of woman, the remark applies in its full force only to those whom our own sin- gular perversity has rendered so delicate and susceptible. It may be asked, how I can affirm the natural equality of constitution in the sexes immediately after my enumeration of a long muster-roll of diseases peculiar to women. I answer thus. The woman, in addition to the organs common to her and man, possesses a complete system devoted to the elaboration and sustenance of the New Being.