Indeed, the feeling of all schoolmistresses is distinctly antagonistic to such an admission.

The contention is that there is no real difference between an adolescent male and female, that what is good for one is good for the other, and that such as there is is due to the evil customs of the past which have denied to women the ambitions and advantages open to men, and that this will disappear when a happier era is inaugurated.

If this be so, how comes it that while every practical physician of experience has seen many cases of anaemia and chlorosis in girls, accompanied by amenorrhaea or menorrhagia, headaches, palpitations, emaciation, and all the familiar accompaniments of breakdown, an analogous condition in a school-boy is so rare that it may well be doubted if it is ever seen at all ?" It is, however, only the excuses for this almost criminal negligence, as it ought to be considered, which are new; the negligence itself is ancient.

Half a century earlier, before the new era of feminine education, another distinguished gynaecologist, Tilt (_Elements of Health and Principles of Female Hygiene_, 1852, p.

18) stated that from a statistical inquiry regarding the onset of menstruation in nearly one thousand women he found that "25 per cent.