...become pathological." " The time of this mental revolution is at best a trying period for youth." " The monthly activity of the ovaries, which marks the...important cause of mental and physical derangement." f * Body and Mind. By llenry Maudsley, MD Lond. p. 31. t Op. cit., p. 87. With regard to the physiological...

...at puberty may go beyond its physiological limits in some instances, and become pathological. * * * The monthly activity of the ovaries which marks the advent of puberty in woman has a notable effect upon the mind, and body: wherefore it may become an important cause of mental,...

...and become pathological." "The time of this mental revolution is at best a trying period for youth." "The monthly activity of the ovaries, which marks...important cause of mental and physical derangement." With regard to the physiological effects of arrested development of the reproductive apparatus in women....

...influence on women. The following examples are illustrative. "The monthly activity of the ovaries ... has a notable effect upon the mind and body; wherefore...important cause of mental and physical derangement ... It is a matter of common experience in asylums, that exacerbations of insanity often take place...

...recovery." In 1873, Henry Mauldsey wrote in Body and Mind that "the monthly activity of the ovaries . . . has a notable effect upon the mind and body; wherefore...important cause of mental and physical derangement." See especially the medical opinions of John Millar. Henry Maudsley, and Andrew Wynter in Madness and...

...illness and vulnerability. As two medical experts claimed: The monthly activity of the ovaries ... has a notable effect upon the mind and body; wherefore...important cause of mental and physical derangement ... It is a matter of common experience in asylums, that exacerbations of insanity often take place...

...1975). So, for example, Henry 34 Maudsley wrote in 1873: 'The monthly activity of the ovaries . . . has a notable effect upon the mind and body: wherefore...important cause of mental and physical derangement' (Maudsley, 1873: 87). So until the late nineteenth century a woman's reproductive ability was located...

...1870s Maudsley2, the most distinguished psychiatrist of the time, wrote '. . . the monthlv acti\ity of the ovaries which marks the advent of puberty in...important cause of mental and physical derangement ...* This was somehow recognized, rightly or wrongly, to be attributable to the ovaries, and bilateral...

...woman's cycle and with great prescience noted the association of behavioral changes with ovarian cycles: 'the monthly activity of the ovaries which marks the...important cause of mental and physical derangement.' Thus it was clear that the cyclical symptoms of insanity or menstrual madness were believed to be due...