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the ever-present ‘ headache.’ Mind and body are compelled to act so quickly in that work, that I am not surprised at nervous effects, particularly in young women not fully developed.”
It will be seen from the foregoing, that the female compositors themselves, their employers and associates, those who superintend them, and their physicians, all agree to the effects of the labor, and the latter recognize the cause. Although subject to modifying, and to a certain degree puzzling, circumstances, there can, apparently, be no doubt of the relation existing between typesetting, as an employment possessing the physico-mental draft, and the conditions found to exist in those devoted to it. Counting it, therefore, as an interesting and conclusive illustration of the physico-mental influence upon the peculiar function of woman, and leaving our suggestions concerning it to a further consideration, we pass to the review of an occupation still more closely a type of concentrated mental and physical co-operation.