iseases of Women. Am. ed., p. 48.

[6] "Much less uncommon than the absence of either ovary is the
persistence of both through the whole or greater part of life in the
condition which they present in infancy and early childhood, with
scarcely a trace of graafian vesicles in their tissue. This want of
development of the ovaries is generally, though not invariably,
associated with want of development of the uterus and other sexual
organs; and I need not say that women in whom it exists are
sterile."--_Lectures on the Diseases of Women, by Charles West, M.D.
Am. ed., p. 37._

[7] Enigmas of Life, pp. 165-8.

[8] Tuckerman's Genera Lichenum, Introduction, p. v.

[9] Carpenter's Human Physiology, p. 455.

[10] Nicholson, Study of Biology, p. 79.

[11] Popular Science Monthly, August, 1872, p. 411.

[12] Sleep and its Derangements, pp. 9, 10, 13.

PART III.

CHIEFLY CLINICAL.

"Et l'on nous persuadera difficilement que lorsque les hommes
ont tant de peine a etre hommes, les femmes puissent, tout en
restant femmes, devenir hommes aussi, mettant ainsi la main
sur les deux roles, exercant la double mission, resumant le
double caractere de l'humanite! Nous perdrons la femme, et
nous n'aurons pas l'homme. Voila ce qui nous arrivera. On nous
donnera ce quelque chose de monstreux, cet etre repugnant, qui
deja parait a notre horizon."--LE COMTE A. DE GASPARIN.

"Facts given in evidence are premises from which a conclusion
is to be drawn. The first step in the exercise of this duty is
to acquire a belief of the truth of the facts."--RAM,
_on Facts_.

Clinical observation confirms the teachings of physiology. The sick
chamber, not the schoolroom; the physician's private consultation, not
the committee's public examination; the hospital, not the college,
the workshop, or the parlor,--disclose the sad results which modern
social customs, modern education, and modern ways of labor, have
entailed on women. Examples of them may be found in every walk of
life. On the luxurious couches of Beacon Street; in the palaces of
Fifth Avenue; among the classes of our private, common, and normal
schools; among the female graduates of our colleges; behind the
counters of Washington Street and Broadway; in our factories,
workshops, and homes,--may be found numberless pale, weak, neuralgic,
dyspeptic, hysterical, menorrhagic, dysmenorrhoeic girls and women,
that are living illustrat