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REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 



portion of his two-faced mental and physical nature. In some respects 

 this is the climax of the delight of mortal experience, this opening of 

 the world's real life to the childish mind. By a study of the phenomena 

 of puberty including the far-reaching bodily changes not less than the 

 all-pervading alterations in the mental process, one learns to appreciate 

 how completely intermixed is sexuality in most of the affairs of life. Its 

 instinctive influence surpasses that of all other functions save nutrition, 

 and these two accord in being irrepressible. 



The female reproductive organs, to show their nerve-supply: p.n., phrenic nerve; a.n., splanch- 

 nic; l.g.s., lumbar ganglion (sympathetic); g.u.p., great uterine plexus; r.h.p., right hypogastric 

 plexus; s.p., sacral plexus; r.c.g., right cervical ganglion; v.n., vagus; s.g., solar ganglion; s.r.g., 

 suprarenal ganglion; i.r.g., infrarenal ganglion; s. and i.g., superior and inferior genital ganglia; 

 spe.p., spermatic plexus (ovarian nerves). (Frankenhauser via Edgar.) 



Puberty in the Female. More profound by far than the changes that 

 constitute puberty in the boy are those which make of the maiden child 

 a woman. The average young girl while a child is more like a boy than 

 the average boy is like a girl that is to say, the pubertal changes of the 

 female are more revolutionary than are those in the male. 



They come about somewhat more gradually, and soon after the age 

 of twelve in temperate climates (sometimes as early as nine in the tropics) 

 the proper sexual changes begin. As one may read in Aristotle, men- 



