Trains And Brains
When you get into your car in the morning, pump your favorite music through your speakers, and passionately lipsync your way to work, flying down the freeway at 70 miles per hour, your only worry is whether you’ll make it to work on time. You expect to arrive with all your body parts intact.
Victorian times were wild. People attributed just about any ailment they could think of to “high-speed” travel. In 1870, a doctor reported in the New England Medical Gazette that women’s uteruses could be dislocated indirectly due to riding on a train the day before her period. He also believed it could stop Aunt Flow from visiting. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it?