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Eighty report more or less ill effects observed by them ; the balance, giving negative or doubtful answers, were mainly from towns where the machines were used only in private families, etc. My own analysis of the published replies shows that sixty-nine physicians replied to the query. Of this number, forty-four answered in an emphatic manner, declaring the results to be undoubted upon the organs of menstruation and the function itself; four, only, held negative views; while the remainder assigned to the use other results indirectly operative to the same end.
I quote a few only, taken at random from the many unequivocal statements of these physicians as to the pernicious effects of this industry.
KEPLIES.FROM MASSACHUSETTS PHYSICIANS.
A. “ Quite a number of cases, in which pain and lameness in the back and thighs, dyspepsia, leucor- rhoea, vaginitis, and menorrhagia existed, I have attributed to their use.”
B. “The most common disease I have seen is a