Woman's education, and woman's health : chiefly in reply to "Sex in education" / by George F. Comfort and Mrs. Anna Manning Comfort.

  • George Fisk Comfort
Date:
1874
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Credit: Woman's education, and woman's health : chiefly in reply to "Sex in education" / by George F. Comfort and Mrs. Anna Manning Comfort. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    doorway, the blood, flowing through the canals of the organization, carries nutriment to all the tissues, and refuse from them. Its current sweeps nourishment in, and waste out. The former it yields to the body for assimilation ; the latter it deposits with the organs of elimination [depuration ?] for rejection. . . . The principal [sole ?] organs of elimination common to both sexes are the bowels, kidneys, lungs, and skin . . . To woman is entrusted the exclusive man- agement of another process (!) of elimination, viz., the catamenial function. This, using the blood for its clianticl of operation, performs, like the blood, double duty. It is necessary to ovulation, and to the integrity of every part of the reproductive apparatus ; it also serves as a means of elimination to the blood itself. On page 64: The reproductive apparatus of woman uses the blood as one of its agettts of elimination. These passages are marked by a singularly inexact, or indeed inaccurate use of scientific language. Not all the organs of elimination serve the purpose of excretive depuration of the