“Nature ... is very easily perverted: and the girl who begins by
imagining she is ill or ought to be at such times will end by being
really so.” (“No Sex in Education,” Philadelphia, 1874, p. 79.)
3.—“... _counter-effort_ ...”
“Forel and many others mention that there are certain popular methods of
slightly retarding menstruation. In one town many of the young women tie
something round their little finger if they wish to delay menstruation
for a few days in order to go to a ball, &c. The method is generally
effectual, but when faith ceases, the effect also ceases.”—Dr. Albert
Moll (“Hypnotism,” p. 226).
Before quitting this special subject it may be well to remark that
little more than the fringe is here indicated of an enormous mass of
evidence which affords more than presumptive confirmation and support
for the position here taken in the whole question of this “abnormal
habit.”
4.—“... _custom_ ...”—See Note XXIV., 6.