catamenia

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She was then sufficiently well-developed, and had a good color; all the functions appeared to act normally, and the catamenia were fairly established.

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

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)

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)

Has not your lady, may I ask, heretofore at the period of the catamenia, suffered, if indeed not from anaemia, then necessarily from plethora?

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

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