28 to one male death. For the next
four years, it falls again to 1.05 females to one male death.--_Sur la
Reproduction et la Mortalite de l'Homme. 8vo. Bruxelles._
[5] Lectures on Diseases 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.
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