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may suspect that the ovaries have previously produced something which 

 has caused the metabolic disturbance. Such an hypothesis, however, has 

 not up to the present time been established experimentally. We must 

 for the present be content with a knowledge of the observed facts, and 

 await a fuller explanation of the peculiar mutual action between the 

 ovaries and the bony tissue as a result of further investigation. 



