case of menstruation from the region of the sternum, and among
the curious anomalies of menstruation must be mentioned that
reported by Parvin seen in a woman, who, at the menstrual epoch,
suffered hemoptysis and oozing of blood from the lips and tongue.
Occasionally there was a substitution of a great swelling of the
tongue, rendering mastication and articulation very difficult for
four or five days. Parvin gives portraits showing the venous
congestion and discoloration of the lips.

Instances of migratory menstruation, the flow moving periodically
from the ordinary passage to the breasts and mammae, are found in
the older writers. Salmuth speaks of a woman on whose hands
appeared spots immediately before the establishment of the
menses. Cases of semimonthly menstruation and many similar
anomalies of periodicity are spoken of.

The Ephemerides contains an instance of the simulation of
menstruation after death, and Testa speaks of menstruation
lasting through a long sleep. Instances of black menstruation are
to be found, described in full, in the Ephemerides, by Paullini
and by Schurig, and in some of the later works; it is possible
that an excess of iron, administered for some menstrual disorder,
may cause such an alteration in the color of the menstrual fluid.

Suppression of menstruation is brought about in many peculiar
ways, and sometimes by the slightest of causes, some authentic
instances being so strange as to seem mythical. Through the
Ephemerides we constantly read of such causes as contact with a
corpse, the sight of a serpent or mouse, the sight of monsters,
etc. Lightning stroke and curious neuroses have been reported as