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 Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
In place of catamenia there was a discharge reddish-green in color.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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 Edward Hammond Clarke
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 T. (Tobias) Smollett
Of course, menstruation before the third or fourth year is extremely rare, most of the cases reported before this age being merely accidental sanguineous discharges from the genitals, not regularly periodical, and not true catamenia.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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