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ments of the digits having become more mechanical, it ceased, and the weight remained essentially unchanged for a few weeks, varying with individuals, from one to three, when in four of the six it increased perceptibly, in the other two slightly. The operatives of this department state, that a change in the shape of their work, requiring for a time more concentrated thought, will, if it occur at that juncture, effect sometimes a disturbance of the catamenial function. In all, familiarity with the work tends to remove the difficulty.
THE COUNTING OF MONEY, ETC.
The continuous counting of money or certain other articles, conducted as a regular employment, presents, perhaps, the purest type of manipulative celerity, co-operative with extreme mental concentration, known to investigators. It has, moreover, the especial characteristic that only to a very slight degree, if at all, can it he made “ mechanical.” It cannot be performed unconsciously,