e at the first month; the British
Medical Journal at the second month; Conarmond at the third month.
Ysabel, a young slave girl belonging to Don Carlos Pedro of Havana,
began to menstruate soon after birth, and at the first year was regular
in this function. At birth her mamma were well developed and her
axillae were slightly covered with hair. At the age of thirty-two
months she was three feet ten inches tall, and her genitals and mammae
resembled those of a girl of thirteen. Her voice was grave and
sonorous; her moral inclinations were not known. Deever records an
instance of a child two years and seven months old who, with the
exception of three months only, had menstruated regularly since the
fourth month. Harle speaks of a child, the youngest of three girls, who
had a bloody discharge at the age of five months which lasted three
days and recurred every month until the child was weaned at the tenth
month. At the eleventh month it returned and continued periodically
until death, occasioned by diarrhea at the fourteenth month. The
necropsy showed a uterus 1 5/8 inches long, the lips of which were
congested; the left ovary was twice the size of the right, but
displayed nothing strikingly abnormal. Baillot and the British Medical
Journal cite instances of menstruation at the fourth month. A case is
on record of an infant who menstruated at the age of six months, and
whose menses returned on the twenty-eighth day exactly. Clark, Wall,
and the Lancet give descriptions of cases at the ninth month. Naegele
has seen a case at the eighteenth month, and Schmidt and Colly in the
second year. Another case is that of a child, nineteen months old,
whose breasts and external genitals were fully developed, although the
child had shown no sexual desire, and did not exceed other children of
the same age in intellectual development. This prodigy was
symmetrically formed and of pleasant appearance. Warner speaks of
Sophie Gantz, of Jewish parentage, born in Cincinnati, July 27, 1865,
whose menses began at the twenty-third month and had continued
regularly up to the time of reporting. At the age of three years and
six months she was 38 inches tall, 38 pounds in weight, and her girth
at the hip was 33 1/2 inches. The pelvis was broad and well shaped, and
measured 10 1/2 inches from the anterior surface of the spinous process
of one ilium to that of the other, being a little more than the
standard pelvis of Churchill, and, in consequence