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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but it must be pointed out that the habit in which many ladies indulge of wearing shoes with soles scarcely thicker than tissue-paper is extremely injurious. Under such circumstances the feet are liable to get wet; and since it is not always possible immediately to change the shoes and stockings, they remain damp and chilly for a considerable time; and if there be any truth in popular opinion, this is precisely the best recipe to catch a cold. It must be admitted, also, that to dress a young girl in the foggy and variable climate of England in garments which would well suit a Tuscan peasantess, at work in the vineyards, is not exactly in accordance with reason or phi- losophy. And yet how often is this strange phe- nomenon exhibited ! So also when a young lady goes to a ball, what is her costume ? Some filmy texture of cobweb and gossamer, which wrould hardly protect from the night-chill Titania herself. However, the excitement of the ball renders her insensible to cold ; perhaps the warmth gene- rated by the assembled crowd, and the exercise of dancing, heat and throw her into perspiration. After some hours spent in this way, it is time to depart. In the antechamber she feels chilly, and hastens to throw her shawl round her shoulders. Then the carriage is called; but confusion arises, boys run about with torches, policemen are busy,