American Women are Physically Degenerating.

Abstract

Washington, D. C., October, 1893. To the Editor: —In The Journal of October 21, Dr. Edmund Andrews of Chicago, takes up the article of Dr.Cyrus Edson on deterioration of American women, published in the October number of theNorth American Review, and gives us the the more cheerful if not the exact status of American motherhood. With Dr. Andrews the wish is evidently father to the thought; for if we examine the facts as they are presented to us in everyday life, we find there is almost a unanimity of opinion among physicians, nurses and mothers of grown children, that women of the last two decades of years seem to suffer more, become sooner physically exhausted and are slower rallying from childbirth than their mothers before them. Taking haphazard the names of some of those married within the last ten years, of my acquaintance, one can not but see a