The young woman's book of health / by Dr. Wm. A. Alcott.

  • Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The young woman's book of health / by Dr. Wm. A. Alcott. 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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    were exceedingly beautiful. Why, then, should not the restoration of the world restore the beauty of the world ? And why should not every step we take upward, in a moral point of view, as a race, be also a step upward physically, — an advance not only towards primeval innocence, but primeval beauty ? One thing, however, woman should be told, — and the lesson should be repeated, till it is fully remembered, — that beauty of form and feature depend very much on bodily health. I once wrote an article, entitled, Crooked Spines and 111 Tem- per.* But there are other connections and de- pendencies of mind and body besides that which was indicated and discussed in the above-mentioned essay. But many young women are beautiful, it may be said, who do not enjoy health. And one eminent foreign traveller has affirmed of a whole class of diseased females in the United States, — the scrofu- lous, I mean, with their transparent skins, light blue eyes, and nervous temperaments, — that they are remarkably beautiful. The mistake of Mr. Combe arises from the fact that we have set up among us a wrong standard of beauty, not only of feature, but of form. The human female frame should not differ essentially * See one of the volumes of the Library of Health.