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400 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
most probably of the lungs ; but often of the spine or
the bowels.
" The young girl who gives way to it, loses her color,
grows emaciated, does not increase in proportion to her
age ; from time to time she coirtplains of pains in the
chest, stomach, and back ; of lassitude, without there
being any known cause to give rise to such symptoms.
She grows weak, her color alters more and more; her
eyes, mouth, her walk, her mode of speaking, all her
features, all her carriage, in fact, bespeak langour and in
difference. Menstruation comes on either too much
or too little, amid nervous affections, and other serious
derangements of health, with which it would not have
been accompanied, if the patient, had been moral in her
conduct ; the periods of this periodical evacuation are
prolonged or become too frequent, sometimes they are
changed into true hemorrhages, and generally are
much more in quantity than ordinarily. From this
may result, in a longer or shorter period of time, an
habitual deranged state of the womb, and consequently
a sufficient cause for all the affections or accidents to
which this organ is liable. Some solitudinarians have
nervous affections, blue devils, pains in the lower part
of the belly, and the whites ; their eyes appear sunk ;
they are encircled with a black ring ; sometimes they
approach to that state which we call strabismus, or ap
pear improperly turned, from the alteration of the
nerves which are distributed to the muscles which
move them—in fact, they partially squint;
all their face
assumes a sombre" aspect, an old and care-worn expres
sion ; from weakness they can not hold themselves up
right; at other times, their body does really curve, at