In response to:
O Calcutta! from the October 8, 1970 issue
To the Editors:
If Mrs. Pepys’s menstrual cycle occurred irregularly as stated in the third sentence of her husband’s diary [Matthew Hodgart’s review of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, NYR, October 8], she would be suffering from metrorrhagia not dysmenorrhea which implies painful menstruation.
Eric J. Vanderbush, M.D.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Public Health Service US Government
Belcourt, N.D.
This Issue
November 5, 1970
This Issue
November 5, 1970
