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SEX IN EDUCATION.
Illustrations of this sort might be multiplied but these three are sufficient to show how ai abnormal method of study and work may am does open the flood-gates of the system, and, by letting blood out, lets all sorts of evil in. Let us now look at another phase; for menorrhagia and its consequences are not the only punishments that girls receive for being educated and worked just like boys. Nature’s methods of punishing men and women «are as numerous as their organs and functions, and her penalties as infinite- in number and gradation as her blessings.
Amenorrhoea is perhaps more common than menorrhagia. It often happens, however, during the first critical epoch, which is isochronal with the technical educational period of a girl, that «after a few occasions of catamenial hemorrhage, moderate perhaps but still hemorrhage, which are not heeded, the conservative force of Nature steps in, and saves the blood by arresting the function. In such instances, amenorrhoea is a result of menorrhagia. In this way, and in others that we