h time for three weeks, the flow being
profuse, but not exhaustingly so, without pain or systemic disturbance.
Examination revealed perfectly normal uterus and ovarian organs.
Treatment, accompanied by sitz-baths during the time of month the flow
should appear, accomplished nothing. The semi-annual flow continued and
the girl seemed in excellent health.

It is a remarkable fact that, as noted by Dr. Hamilton Wey at Elmira,
sexual outbursts among prisoners appear to occur at about March and
October. "Beginning with the middle of February," writes Dr. Wey in a
private letter, "and continuing for about two months, is a season of
ascending sexual wave; also the latter half of September and the month of
October. We are now (March 30th) in the midst of a wave."

According to Chinese medicine, it is the spring which awakens
human passions. In early Greek tradition, spring and summer were
noted as the time of greatest wantonness. "In the season of
toilsome summer," says Hesiod (_Works and Days_, xi, 569-90),
"the goats are fattest, wine is best, women most wanton, and men
weakest." It was so, also, in the experience of the Romans. Pliny
(_Natural History_, Bk. XII, Ch. XLIII) states that when the
asparagus blooms and the cicada sings loudest, is the season when
women are most amorous, but men least inclined to pleasure.
Paulus AEgineta said that hysteria specially abounds during spring
and autumn in lascivious girls and sterile women, while more
recent observers have believed that hysteria is particularly
difficult to treat in autumn. Oribasius (_Synopsis_, lib. i, cap.
6) quotes from Rufus to the effect that sexual feeling is most
strong in spring, and least so in summer. Rabelais said that it
was in March that the sexual impulse is strongest, referring this
to the early warmth of spring, and that August is the month least
favorable to sexual activity (_Pantagruel_, liv. v, Ch. XXIX).
Nipho, in his book on love dedicated to Joan of Aragon, discussed
the reasons why "women are more lustful and amorous in summer,
and men in winter." Venette, in his _Generation de l'homme_,
harmonized somewhat conflicting statements with the observation
that spring is the season of love for both men and women; in
summer, women are more amorous than men; in autumn, men revive to
some extent, but are still oppressed by the heat, which,
sexually