RT Journal
T1 THe relation of dress to pelvic disease.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1889
FD February 23
VO XII
IS 8
SP 271
OP 272
DO 10.1001/jama.1889.02400850019003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02400850019003
AB The questions as to the relations of dress to disease are assuming larger proportions, and taking a more healthy hold upon the minds of laymen; and as laymen become more interested in them, and ask for more knowledge, the more information must medical men have to impart, if they would take the position they should occupy as instructors of the public in preventive medicine. The readers of The Journal will remember the very interesting address of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, at the last meeting of the American Surgical Association, on "The Relation of Social Life to Surgical Disease."The most recent contribution to this subject is a paper read at the last annual meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society, by Dr. J. H. Kellogg, on " Experimental Researches respecting the Relation of Dress to Pelvic Diseases in Women." For many years it has been asserted, though on inaccurate and therefore