Apropos of the article by Dr. George Gellhorn,1 St. Louis, a brief review of a most unusual condition of the apparatus of gestation appearing in the case of a young woman just dismissed from my care will, I am sure, prove interesting:
Patient.
—Miss M. L., aged 32, a virgin, well-developed, with a wealth of magnificent black hair which, when uncoiled, reached to her feet, was brought to my office last summer by a near relative of the patient, with a history of progressive depression merging into melancholia, and a comparatively recent suspicion of suicidal tendency, which was the direct cause for alarm on the part of those interested in her.
History.
—The patient came to this city from Canada about fourteen years ago. She had been a parlor maid until two years ago, when, because of a tragedy in the household in which she worked, the home was broken