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man involves economic, sanitary, and moral questions of the farthest reach; for, whenever successful in its aggressions, it brings, —
1st. To individuals suffering thereby , —
(a) Lessened productive labor, and hence lessened
comforts of life.
( b ) Increased expense, and loss of vital force, time,
and money.
(c) A draft upon previous accumulations, or debt and
obligation.
( d ) As a rule, lessened capacity for future production
by labor.
(e) Bodily and mental distress, sometimes tending to
intemperance and crime, — thus far all results that may be the legacies of several forms of disease, but specially resultant on the disturbances in review; while further we have, —
(/) Lessened probabilities of maternity or vigorous offspring, with possible resultant loss of social and domestic happiness, and even a worse train of sequela 5 , including secondary disease, insanity,* and death.
* While the statistics of insanity have been hitherto too loosely collected to give satisfactory and reliable data as to the relation which uterine and menstrual disorders bear to insanity, there is sufficient evidence to show a very close and extensive connection between the two. Dr. Bartlett
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