prostitute, who menstruated from time to time through spots, the
size of a five-franc piece, developing on the breasts, buttocks,
back, axilla, and epigastrium. Barham records a case similar to
the foregoing, in which the menstruation assumed the character of
periodic purpura. Duchesne mentions an instance of complete
amenorrhea, in which the ordinary flow was replaced by periodic
sweats.

Parrot speaks of a woman who, when seven months old, suffered
from strumous ulcers, which left cicatrices on the right hand,
from whence, at the age of six years, issued a sanguineous
discharge with associate convulsions. One day, while in violent
grief, she shed bloody tears. She menstruated at the age of
eleven, and was temporarily improved in her condition; but after
any strong emotion the hemorrhages returned. The subsidence of
the bleeding followed her first pregnancy, but subsequently on
one occasion, when the menses were a few days in arrears, she
exhibited a blood-like exudation from the forehead, eyelids, and
scalp. As in the case under D'Andrade's observation, the
exudation was found by microscopic examination to consist of the
true constituents of blood. An additional element of complication
in this case was the occurrence of occasional attacks of
hematemesis.

Menstruation from the Breasts.--Being in close sympathy with the
generative function, we would naturally expect to find the female
mammae involved in cases of anomalous menstruation, and the truth
of this supposition is substantiated in the abundance of such
cases on record. Schenck reports instances of menstruation from
the nipple; and Richter, de Fontechia, Laurentius, Marcellus