An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Wallace, James Westwood, 1768 or 1769-1838.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural physiological dissertation on the catamenia : to which are subjoined, observations on amenorrhoea ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by James Westwood Wallace, of Virginia, member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VI. As the menfes indicate the maturity of the fyftem, and as the maturity of this is neceflary to generation, and as premature venery is high- ly injurious to the conftituticn, the laws of mofl nations have determined at what age fe- males are marriageable. This is much influ- enced by climate, &c. In Periia, India, and other countries contiguous to the torrid zone, marriages are celebrated at the eighth or ninth year. Marriages in this country are never celebrated until the female attains to fourteen, and the male to fixteen, years of age. VII. The firft travellers over the northern coun- tries, whofe obfervations have been pnblimed, affirm that the females of thofe northern coun- tries do not menftruate. But the moil refpedta- ble authority has fmce fliewn, that the females of Lapland and Kamfchatka, and all the di- minutive race of the Efquimaux, diffufed over fuch immenfe traels of land near the frieid o zone, obey this universal law of the human fe- male