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these limits it is a hemorrhage, that, by draining away the life, becomes a source of weakness and a perpetual fountain of disease.
The following case illustrates one of the ways in which our present school methods of teaching girls generate a menorrhagia and
its consequent evils. Miss A-, a healthy,
bright, intelligent girl, entered a female school, an institution that is commonly but oddly called a seminary for girls, in the State of New York, at the age of fifteen. She was then sufficiently-well developed, and had a good color ; all the functions appeared to act normally, and the catamenia were fairly established. She was ambitious as well as capable, and aimed to be among the first in the school. Her temperament was what physiologists call nervous, — an expression that does not denote a fidgety make, but refers to a relative activity of the nervous system. She was always anxious about her recitations. No matter how carefully she prepared for them, she was ever fearful lest she should trip a little, and appear to less advantage 6