sur les deux rôles, exerçant la double mission, résumant le
double caractère de l'humanité! 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 être répugnant, qui
déjà parait à 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 illustrations of the truth of this brief monograph. 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 graduates of our schools
and colleges are pathological specimens. But it is asserted that the