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“ (c) Diseases peculiar to women, aggravated by, rather than caused-by, the plethoric condition of the pelvic organs, induced by this exercise.
“(d) General debility. By this is meant a state of physical deterioration and nervous prostration brought on by overwork.”
Adding to these conclusions the single remark, that my own observations and review of the data given would indicate a classification of these influences upon female ill health as more decidedly “causative” than “aggravating,” the belief may fairly he educed therefrom, that in the continued use of the sewing-machine by foot-power, there resides a source of special functional disturbance in women, which is extensive in its reach, and embraces overwork, often under bad sanitary surroundings, labor to which much of the monotony and unremitting character incident to most machine-work attaches, and muscular activity coupled with a considerable degree of mental concentration; tlii-s last being in an intermediate degree to that required by factory machinery, and that
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