🚲🧐 During the 1890s, the sudden popularity of #bicycles led doctors to warn of fictitious ailments like "bicycle face" and "bicycle hand" to discourage independent #travel.

This look at historical #health scares explains how new #tech often triggers social #anxiety and strange medical #myths.

👉 https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-thing-that-transcends-time-is-the-escapism-of-the-bike-how-the-victorians-lost-their-minds-over-cycling-the-following-made-up-diseases-and-social-change

#history #cycling #science #sociology #education #discovery #technology