The power and beauty of superb womanhood : how they are lost and how they may be regained and developed to the highest degree of attainable perfection / by Bernarr Macfadden.

  • Macfadden, Bernarr, 1868-1955.
Date:
1901
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The power and beauty of superb womanhood : how they are lost and how they may be regained and developed to the highest degree of attainable perfection / by Bernarr Macfadden. 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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    There is evidence everywhere of female de- generacy, and the need of increased physical health and strength for women, but if proof beyond all possible question as to the physical condition of woman is desired, visit one of the popular seashore resorts during the bathing season. There you will find evidence at every hand of the distorting and demoralizing influ- ence of the habits of life adopted by the aver- age woman. How few can boast of even an ordinary degree of comeliness when in a wet bathing suit! It allows of no deceit. They then appear just as they really ar,e when minus their frills and furbelows—just as outraged Nature has made them. Here, too, one can compare the physical condition of the two sexes. It is not at all uncommon for one to see su- perb specimens of manhood at these resorts. Many men are seen with fine limbs, strong, well-made arms, and figures that possess sym- metry and beauty almost equal to those of the famous statue of Apollo. But how few Venuses can be found? Many of those who