@article{ref1,
title="Woman and the bicycle [editorial] [1895]",
journal="Buffalo medical journal",
year="1895",
author="No Author(s) Listed, ",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="348-350",
abstract="The subject given in the above title appears to be an absorb ing one just now. The daily prints are full of interesting accounts showing the progress of this new fashion, not to say fad, and each in turn is enjoying, day by day, its own little joke, original or stale, at the expense of the sex. Medical societies, too, are discussing the question as to the propriety of the exercise, both from a moral and physical standpoint, and medical journals are commenting upon the action of the societies as well as discussing it editorially. We have refrained until now from entering the field, preferring to await the crystallisation of the crude and imper fect elements that are evolving from all this material.   The time, however, seems to have arrived when we may express an opinion on the merits of the question with a reasonable degree of intelligence. The usefulness of the bicycle for business pur poses is beyond question. For the young woman, engaged in business pursuits, whose residence is remote from the place of her occupation, it affords unquestionably the best and healthiest method of transit. In its use she avoids the street cars in the early morning, at midday and at evening, when they are over crowded, unhealthful, uncomfortable, even dangerous. In its use she reaches her business office refreshed by a ride in the early morning air, better prepared to cope with her duties, and it carries her home to luncheon or dinner with an appetite stimulated to sharpness and a digestion correspondingly improved. This is one of the practical views of this many-sided question.   The bicycle considered as a means of recreation takes us alto- gether into another field. Here we are obliged to take into account its moral and physical aspects. For a healthy woman whose social position is assured there is little to be said in criticism of her reasonable use of the wheel. Young girls, however, should be permitted to use it only under the strictest supervision of a com- petent parent or governess. The danger of its excessive use in youth is very great. No young girl should be permitted to ride to fatigue or to sit upon it otherwise than erect. Under no circum- stances should she be permitted to ride at evening with the oppo site sex unaccompanied by a proper chaperone. We have no doubt that a violation of this cardinal principle, that should be formu lated as an inexorable rule, has been fruitful of much social mis- chief and would easily lead to ruinous consequences.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-3817",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}