Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Emily A Bruce Arena

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [4]

Subjects:

Gender, Disease, Physiology, Rationalism

    In a 'symposium on the rational dress movement', Emily A Bruce, 'Speaking from her experience as a physician', declares 'that "more women die annually in our country from the effects of faulty dressing than from all the contagious diseases combined', and suggests the adoption of a 'modified Syrian dress' which affords 'ample room everywhere for absolute freedom of motion and for the ever-recurring physiological congestions of the digestive tract' (291).