function. At birth her mamma were well developed and her axillae
were slightly covered with hair. At the age of thirty-two months
she was three feet ten inches tall, and her genitals and mammae
resembled those of a girl of thirteen. Her voice was grave and
sonorous; her moral inclinations were not known. Deever records
an instance of a child two years and seven months old who, with
the exception of three months only, had menstruated regularly
since the fourth month. Harle speaks of a child, the youngest of
three girls, who had a bloody discharge at the age of five months
which lasted three days and recurred every month until the child
was weaned at the tenth month. At the eleventh month it returned
and continued periodically until death, occasioned by diarrhea at
the fourteenth month. The necropsy showed a uterus 1 5/8 inches
long, the lips of which were congested; the left ovary was twice
the size of the right, but displayed nothing strikingly abnormal.
Baillot and the British Medical Journal cite instances of
menstruation at the fourth month. A case is on record of an
infant who menstruated at the age of six months, and whose menses
returned on the twenty-eighth day exactly. Clark, Wall, and the
Lancet give descriptions of cases at the ninth month. Naegele has
seen a case at the eighteenth month, and Schmidt and Colly in the
second year. Another case is that of a child, nineteen months
old, whose breasts and external genitals were fully developed,
although the child had shown no sexual desire, and did not exceed
other children of the same age in intellectual development. This
prodigy was symmetrically formed and of pleasant appearance.
Warner speaks of Sophie Gantz, of Jewish parentage, born in
Cincinnati, July 27, 1865, whose menses began at the twenty-third
month and had continued regularly up to the time of reporting. At
the age of three years and six months she was 38 inches tall, 38