drunken father in a tenement house, and
was of wretched physical constitution, quite ignorant, and of low moral
character, as evinced by her specific vaginitis. Occurring from nine
years to the ordinary time of puberty, many cases are recorded.

Instances of protracted menstruation are, as a rule, reliable, the
individuals themselves being cognizant of the nature of true
menstruation, and themselves furnishing the requisite information as to
the nature and periodicity of the discharge in question. Such cases
range even past the century-mark. Many elaborate statistics on this
subject have been gathered by men of ability. Dr. Meyer of Berlin
quotes the following:--

28 at 50 years of age,
3 at 57 years of age,
18 " 51 " " "
3 " 58 " " "
18 " 52 " " "
1 " 59 " " "
11 " 53 " " "
4 " 60 " " "
13 " 54 " " "
4 " 62 " " "
5 " 55 " " "
3 " 63 " " "
4 " 56 " " "

These statistics were from examination of 6000 cases of menstruating
women. The last seven were found to be in women in the highest class of
society.

Mehliss has made the following collection of statistics of a somewhat
similar nature--

Late Dentition. Late Late
Male. Female. Lactation. Menstruation.
Between 40 and 50 0 4 0 0
" 50 " 60 1 4 2 1
" 60 " 70 3 2 1 0
" 70 " 80 3 2 0 7
" 80 " 90 6 2 0 0
" 90 " 100 1 1 0 1
Above 100 ..... 6 1 0 1
-- -- -- --
20 16 3 10

These statistics seem to have been made with the idea of illustrating
the marvelous rather than to give the usual prolongation of these
functions. It hardly seems possible that ordinary investigation would
show no cases of menstruation between sixty and seventy, and seven
cases between seventy and eighty; however, in searching literature for
such a collection, we must bear in mind that the more extraordinary the
instance, the more likely it is that it would be spoken of, as the
natural tendency of medical men is to overlook the important ordinary
and report the nonimport