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eral disturbance being in the direction of menorrhagia, or profuse menstruation.
The more advanced toward matured adult life the individual, the better she is able to endure the hardship of the employ.
There is general suffering with those so engaged, from persistent headache, dropsical affections, and severe dyspepsia; while not infrequent uterine inflammations and displacement have come under my own knowledge among the operatives in this department.
Few have been able to follow it for any length of time, and these not continuously; the duration of employ being closely proportionate to the maturity of the individual.
A casual inquiry among stenographers has assured me, that, although a vocation admirably adapted in many of its features for the exercise of female ability, and embracing demands for the deft celerity, with the ready perception and appreciation of women ; its requirements of concentration and nervous
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