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Female obstructions are rare, though 

 sometimes met with among the better sort 

 of people ; neither are the catamenia im- 

 moderate, nor in common so copious as 

 with us. The Lapland women are entirely 

 ignorant of the leucorrhcea. 

 . Of hysterics I met with but two cases. 

 One maid-servant, twenty-four years of age^ 

 had the complaint about once a year ; 

 another, about thirty, was attacked with 

 it monthly during the summer. 



Epilepsy sometimes occurs. Headachs 

 are. frequent; hence the forehead is often 

 seen full of scars (from the application of 

 their toule, ox moxa ; see vol, 1. p. 274). 



Elderly people are often hard of hearing. 



The sleep of the Laplanders is commonly 

 sound, and they are in the habit of sleep- 

 ing or waking whenever they please. 



A swelling, or falling down, of the uvula 

 is not uncommon, in which case they fre- 

 quently cut off the part affected. 



When children are troubled with swell- 

 ings in the glands about the throat, the 



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