Part 154

Essay on the Physical and Mental Diseases of Women.

Footnote 7:

Physiological Considerations on the Diverse Epochs of the Life of Woman.

Footnote 8:

Concerning Sexual Differentiation, and Its Influence on Organic Nature.

Footnote 9:

The Sexual Life of Woman.

Footnote 10:

On account of the womb alone is woman what she is.

Footnote 11:

The womb is the cause of all the diseases from which women suffer.

Footnote 12:

“Love is an episode merely in the life of man; of woman, it is the entire history.” But this epigram of Madame de Staël’s will, to English readers, be more familiar in the form in which it was cast by Byron (Don Juan, canto i, stanza 194):

“Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart; ’Tis woman’s whole existence.”

Footnote 13:

On Love.

Footnote 14:

“This century will be known as the century of the diseases of the uterus.”

Footnote 15:

Half-virgin.

Footnote 16:

Beauty of the devil.

Footnote 17:

“The cry of the suffering organ comes not from the uterus but from the entire organism.”

Footnote 18:

“One for Many. Leaves from the Diary of a Maiden of Vera.”

Footnote 19:

It is by a certain abuse of terminology that the name follicle is given to these structures even before the appearance of fluid in their interior, the word folliculus meaning properly a little bag or sack. The author’s limitation of the term graafian follicle to the later, full-grown stage of these structures, though historically accurate, is not usual in England.—TR.