A British Medical Association Lecture on PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF RECENT VIEWS ON THE MENSTRUAL FUNCTION

anid this elemiient of iiiystery seems, as Novak says, " to hIave inhibited intelligent efforts to study." It was taken for granted that the function was essentially a cleansing process, its purpose being to cleanse the blood of various impiurities, a view still lheld to-day by niot a few lay miiembers of the community. One of the important practical applications of recent views on the menstrual function is tlhe sweeping away of thlis atmiosphere of superstition and speculation. Durinig the last few years what may be described as a neew " sexutal p)hysiology " has been written,