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NICHOLSON J. EASTMAN, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1944;125(16):1077-1079.

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There are doubtless many ways in which rest may be abused in obstetrics and gynecology, ways of clinical import. But in view of the critical times through which our country is passing, it would seem particularly appropriate to consider two abuses of rest which not only bear on the health and happiness of every married woman but carry also far reaching implications in regard to the present and future welfare of our nation. I refer, first, to the abuse of rest as it affects pregnant women in industry and, second, to the abuse of rest of the female reproductvie organs as it pertains to so-called "child spacing."

It has been estimated that about 18 million American women are employed today in industry, or some 36 per cent of all our women of 15 years and over. Of this group 6 1/2 to 8 million, or 13 to 16 per cent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Department of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.

Footnotes
Read in a symposium on "The Abuse of Rest in the Treatment of Disease" before the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics at the Ninety-Fourth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 15, 1944.

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