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 and listless orbs told the sad story of already approaching insanity. A few questions, followed by a physical examination, and the "diagnosis" was simple enough. This bestial husband had brought the poor girl to her sad condition wholly by his excesses in the exercise of his "marital rights." It is difficult to imagine the horrible condition to which the whole generative organization had been brought. Womb, vagina, bladder, and rectum, all were fearfully inflamed and mangled. The case was simply dreadful. Separation was obtained. Many painful weeks of treatment succeeded in restoring her to comparative health, and I was subpoenaed as medical witness in her suit for "divorce and alimony." I gave my testimony, detailing with minuteness the disease and its cause. It was proved by the sworn statements of the wife and full admissions by her husband that a course of incredible brutality, arising from his fiendish passions, had been pursued toward her "night and day" from the first night following their marriage; but the evidence also showed that "outside of their bedroom he was kind and even affectionate." The court decided that the charge of cruelty was not proven, inasmuch as the law does not take cognizance of the sexual relations of married persons! Positively, during the same session of the same court, some twenty-odd divorces were granted upon allegations which, compared with what this poor woman had suffered, were heavenly virtues. And now comes this same brutal husband and applies in his turn for a divorce from his wife on "the ground of desertion!" Undoubtedly he will have no difficulty in obtaining it.

While briefly reciting the consequences entailed upon the woman by the practice of conjugal onanism, we reserved for special mention the frightful danger of cancer