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tim, may be and is itself produced by failure of the function in tlie forming girl.* That one has been the parent of the other, with interchangeable priority, and that both have proceeded from certain evils incident to a life of labor, no observer of the working- women of the land can doubt. “ Amenorrhoea (retarded menstruation), especially if attended with chloro-ansemia, is very liable to merge into, to induce , pulmonary consumption .'’ f “ Not uncommonly,” says Dr. Clapton, “ phthisis appears to be developed in consequence of emansio-mensium; but phthisis in nearly every case stops menstruation.” “With suppressed menstruation,”
* “Experience, our only sure guide in medical inquiries, instructs the physician that a diseased condition of the body produces an alteration in the condition of the mind; and that certain emotions of the soul, whether of a pleasurable'or painful nature, are universally attended with reciprocal alteration in the bodily functions.” — Forbes Winslow : Body and Mind, p. 153. “Functional derangement and alteration necessarily result from this state of things, leading to disease and change of structure in the organs.” — Graham’s Science of Life, sec. 305.
* Barnes, op. cit.