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)
Dunlape reports a case of hemorrhagic diathesis, following suppression of the catamenia, attended by vicarious hemorrhage from the gums, which terminated fatally.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The other did not marry, and although not a dwarf, was under-sized; she had her catamenia every third week.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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)
In response to his argument the decree against catamenia was accordingly abolished.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
