English: Identifier: womenofallnation01joyc
Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited
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RESPECTABLE MARRIED WOMAN OF KELANTAN. Wearing a sarong oF Kelanlan pal-tern, surmounted by the typicalbroad sash (kMn lepas), girtabout the breasts. she is made to lie day andnight, throughout the entireperiod of her confinement; in-deed, the \-ery wood requiredfor the fire of this roasting-jilace often takes severalweeks work to get together.This remarkable institutionwas the invention of thei^oEidan, or professionalwise-woman, and its resulthas been known in somecases to produce mentalaberration lasting for somemonths afterwards, andmust, in cases of any diffi-culty, have been frequentlyfatal. Even apart from this,both the person of the pa-tient and that of her husband were encompassed byan extraordinary body ofpetty restrictions and pro-hibitions, which it must cer-tainly be exceedingly tryingto have to observe under thesevere conditions just de-scribed. Not only is sheabsolutely prohibited fromreposing upon her own 194 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS
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