catamenia

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They have the following custom when they have their catamenia: the wives withdraw from their husbands, or the daughter from her father and mother and other relatives, and go to certain small houses.

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

Whether it be merely a coincidence I am unable to say, but it is true that the majority of these cases have been in young females just after the establishment of the catamenia.

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

Dupuytren speaks of denudation of the skin from a burn, with the subsequent development of vicarious catamenia from the seat of the injury.

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

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)

Perhaps the venous h�morrhages obey the lunar periods, as the catamenia, and h�morrhoids.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus