Is Cycling Bad for Women? What a Professor of Gynaecology Thinks
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Henry J Garrigues Forum |
Subjects: | Transport, Machinery, Gender, Health, Obstetrics, Fear |
Recommends 'the upright posture as against the curved or bent, as hygienically and medically the best', and dismisses fears that 'the enlargement of muscle consequent on cycling might take place where it would aggravate the ordeal of maternity'. | |
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