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lowing effect, viz., that it is not asserted here, that improper methods of study and a disregard of the reproductive apparatus and its functions, during the educational life of girls, are the sole causes of female diseases; neither is it asserted that all the female urad-
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uates of our schools and colleges are pathological specimens. But it is asserted that the number of these graduates who have been permautly disabled to a greater or less degree, or fatally injured, by these causes, is such as to excite the gravest alarm , and tq demand the serious attention of the community.
The preceding physiological and pathological data naturally open the way to a consideration of the co-education of the sexes.