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deprived of sufficient opportunity and nutriment, first began to perform their functions with pain, a warning of error that was unheeded ; then, to cease to grow ; * next, to set up once a month a grumbling torture that made life miserable ; and, lastly, the brain and the whole nervous system, disturbed, in obedience to the law, that, if one member suffers, all the members suffer, became neuralgic and hysterical. And so Miss D-
spent the few years next succeeding her graduation in conflict with dysmenorrhoea, headache, neuralgia, and hysteria. Her parents marvelled at her ill-health ; and she
* The arrest of development of the uterus, in connection with amenorrhoea, is sometimes very marked. In the New- York Medical Journal for June, 1873, three such cases are recorded, that came under the eye of those excellent observers, Dr. E. R. Peaslee and Dr. T. G. Thomas. In one of these cases, the uterine cavity measured one and a half inches; in another, one and seven-eighths inches; and, in a third, one and a quarter inches. Recollecting that the normal measurement is from two and a half to three inches, it appears that the arrest of development in these cases occurred when the uterus was half or less than half grown. Liberal education should avoid such errors.