- Ware told by Dr. Quain and the Medical Journal that
the 21111131r of deaths from heart disease in men has increased from 5,74in 1851 to 12,428 in 1870, i.e., has more than doubled. Bat the rease applies only to men in active life ; there is no increase in thelmber of deaths from this cause among men under twenty-five yea of age, nor is there any such increase in the number of deaths amg women even over twenty-five years. Hence the inference drm is that it is the increased worry and hurry of active men's liftrhich has caused the relative increase of this disease, and that if omen don't want to suffer still more severely they should keep -oaf the worry and hurry of practical life even at the coat of keing "women's rights" in abeyance. Perhaps, however, they vrrejoin that they regard it as emphatically one of the most itienable of those rights to die of heart-disease as much as men. Al to tell the truth, if it is only a choice of various mortal diseases, –nd Dr. Quain does not seem to assert that it is anything else ,- suspect that heart disease is rather preferable to most others of 4 fatal class. Except in the ease of angina pectoris, it is mostly inless and often sudden, and sudden deaths, however painful to vivors, spare pain to the victims.
Previous page
