Sex in education, or, a fair chance for girls / by Edward H. Clarke, M.D.

  • Clarke, Edward H. (Edward Hammond), 1820-1877.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sex in education, or, a fair chance for girls / by Edward H. Clarke, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    every seven years, science has long since ex- ploded. The matter, said Mi. John Goodsir, of the organized frame to its minutest parts is in a continual flux. Our bodies are never the same for any two suc- cessive days. The feet that Mary shall dance with next Christmas Eve will not be the same feet that bore her triumphantly through the previous Christmas holidays. The brain that she learns German with to- day does not contain a cell in its convolu- tions that was spent in studying French one year ago. Whetlier her present feet can dance better or worse than those of a year ago, and whether her present brain can do more or less German and French than the one of the year before, depends upon how she has used her feet and brain during the intervening time, that is, upon the metamor- phosis of her tissue. From birth to adult age, the cells of muscle, organ, and brain that are spent in the activities of life, such as digesting, growing, studying, playing, working, and the like, are