Midnight Sun’s Reviews > All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency > Status Update

“Some women regard cigarettes as symbols of freedom. Smoking is a sublimation of oral eroticism; holding a cigarette in the mouth excites the oral zone. It is perfectly normal for women to want to smoke cigarettes.”
—Abraham Arden Brill, MD, circa 1929

WHAT

“The assertion of Dr. Dudley Sargent of Harvard that women are stronger than men and can endure more, encounters widespread contradiction, but perhaps he is right. Look how women endure their husbands!”

lol

“Men could have surgery and get a job; women could do the same and get a man.”

Crazyyy

“If soldiers whose faces had been torn away by bursting shell on the battlefield could come back into an almost normal life with new faces created by the wizardry of the new science of plastic surgery, why couldn’t women whose faces had been ravaged by nothing more explosive than the hand of the years find again the firm clear contours of youth?
—Max Thorek, MD, plastic surgeon, 1943”

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