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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    CHAPTER II. ERRORS IN THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN. In the progress of my remarks concerning the diseased condition of young women, in the fore- going chapter, I have alluded to a few of the errors connected with the present system of female edu- cation, both in the family and in the school. For we live in a world of cause and effect. None of our troubles are the result of chance or haphaz- ard, or of fatality. None of them spring out of the ground, or are forced upon us by arbitrary in- fliction or malevolent agencies. Female miseducation begins with the beginning, — at the very threshold of life. In a world where wrong tendencies are so numerous, it seems almost idle to particularize. And yet I will seize on a few leading errors, on which to make my com- ments. Section 1. Too great Delicacy and Tenderness. Yery few of our young women are trained to hardness. Thou, therefore, my son, endure hard- ness, was scarcely more necessary, as an apostolic injunction, in the days of Paul and Timothy, than