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lectures, was ordered to take iron, and other nourishing food, allow time for sleep, and, above all, to arrange her professional work in harmony with the rythmical or periodical action of woman’s constitution. She made the effort to do this, and, in six months, reported herself in better health — though far from well — than she had been for six years before.
This case scarcely requires analysis in order to see how it bears on the question of a girl’s education and woman’s work. A gifted and healthy girl, obliged to get her education and earn her bread at the same time, labored upon the two tasks zealously, perhaps over-much, and did this at the epoch when the female organization is busy with the development of its reproductive apparatus. Nor is this all. She labored continuously, yielding nothing to Nature’s periodical demand for force. She worked her engine up to highest pressure, just as much at flood-tide as at other times. Naturally there was not nervous power enough deve 1 oped in the uterine and associated gan-