The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-20
(Medical Record.

From tho earliest recorded tim,
Women have hcen spoken of as tn,
weaker scX. as frail. delicate crca
lures. Eminent writer's have asserted
that aside from their natural consti
t%ntional frailty women were invalid.
! on"-ffth of The time. Yet the dawr
Of the twentieth century finds us Will
abundant proof of wonan's physica
superiority over man when tested by
length of years.. the power to cndur.
suffering n resist disease.
In 1890 the United States censu:
showed that there were at that time
","Sl cc%ntenarians' in this country, OF
whom 3."s" were NJ 1895
were mon. Out of SO c%etcnarians who
died in England during the veal
1Ss$. - were women and II
we're mon. while out OF II centenari.
ans who died in Scotland in 1895. lt
We're W"n1on and six wore men.
During the year 1910 I took clip.
pings from newspapers and periodical.
nI % ~rentenarians who were Their
living or who died during that year
or these u were women and sin
were men.
Tho mystery "f his tcnacity of life
in Wo,n"n still remains a secret.
At birth hoNs arc slightly larger
both in height and weight, and ron.
wv w NV Itdh uttIl -, NlSII ElTlS
pass thcm both in height and weight
for about two years. whom the boys
again take The lead. and complete
their growth at about 81 or -. while
girls complete their growth at 10 or
20. With these brief exceptions males
excel in height and weight through
out life.
Physical strength and vital capa-
city. as tested in lifting weights and
HrH. f1jnC nir i,S., "a 1850
AT ali ages greater i'm males than in
females. If either height or weight.
physical Nigor or vital capacity, there.
fore. h" taken as an indication of SUI
n~"rl"rity. We had little evidence for
th" inqucstioned tenacity of life and
power Of resisting disease i'm women.
nevertheless when We turn to ma
talltN and mortality statistics We find
tn" strange condition OF an excess of
especially at birth. and AN excess of
females in the older population. espc-
ciallN in extreme old age.
Wy taking the average birth rate of
thlrt%-two small European countries
and a few of our own states. we find
that for every 100 girls born there
arc slightly moro than los boys born.
In some countries tho difference is
AS great as 100 boys to every 100
girls.
After the third yea there does not
appear to he any special difference in
the mortality of the sexes until after
80 or 80. when the ratio turns in ia
Nor Of womcn. and continues in their
ave until after 30. when there APP
pears to be hut little difference until
50. after which the difference is more
marked the further We go toward en-
,reme old age.
This ~tcnarit>- nf life in fornoloS ;c
seer in all zyn1otic diseases. espe-
rlally in those diseases which chiefly
affect children. Whooping cough and
diphtheria only appear to he more
fatal i'm females than in males. Whe.
Their correctly Or not. this has been
attributed to the smaller size Of the
throat in females.
be a little difference in the suscep-
tiblii1y to or fatality of either cholera,
smallpox or influenza in the sexes.
Vet. while adult females appear to
nc moro susceptible to all. especially
the first two. all arc believed to he
more fatal in adult males.
Except hillary c~alc,lli, cancer is the
only disease common to both sexes
from which adult females suffer moro
IMAM do adult males. hut the rate of
increase of cancer is much greater in
men than i'm
Women appear To suffer more from
emotional and maniacal insanity. ana
recover ott"nrr then mon. while men
suffer moro from serious brain LESSONS
II from paralysis of the insane. and
AS a consequence offcrc less hope of
recovery.
The especial susceptibility of women
mat renders her more liable TO at
tarks of hNstcria. nenrasthenis. emo
1i"nal states and tho mildcr ofrms of