catamenia

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She worked in a man's sustained way, ignoring all demands for special development, and essaying first to dis-establish, and then to bridle, the catamenia.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond

Thus it is known who have their catamenia and who have not.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

Discharge of Vaginal Parietes.—Longhi describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

I am assured by some persons of credit, that if they are touched, or even approached, by a woman in her catamenia, they infallibly expire.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

He says also that the catamenia generally appears about the time they are expected, or later, and very seldom earlier.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various