slight attacks of rheumatism only, and at this late age was
seized with abdominal pains, followed by menstruation, which
continued for three years; the woman died the next year. This
late menstruation had all the sensible characters of the early
one. Kennard mentions a negress, aged ninety-one, who menstruated
at fourteen, ceased at forty-nine, and at eighty-two commenced
again, and was regular for four years, but had had no return
since. On the return of her menstruation, believing that her
procreative powers were returning, she married a vigorous negro
of thirty-five and experienced little difficulty in satisfying
his desires. Du Peyrou de Cheyssiole and Bonhoure speak of an
aged peasant woman, past ninety-one years of age, who menstruated
regularly.

Petersen describes a woman of seventy-nine, who on March 26th was
seized with uterine pains lasting a few days and terminating with
hemorrhagic discharge. On April 23d she was seized again, and a
discharge commenced on the 25th, continuing four days. Up to the
time of the report, one year after, this menstruation had been
regular. There is an instance on record of a female who
menstruated every three months during the period from her
fiftieth to her seventy-fourth year, the discharge, however,
being very slight. Thomas cites an instance of a woman of
sixty-nine who had had no menstruation since her forty-ninth
year, but who commenced again the year he saw her. Her mother and
sister were similarly affected at the age of sixty, in the first
case attributable to grief over the death of a son, in the second
ascribed to fright. It seemed to be a peculiar family
idiosyncrasy. Velasquez of Tarentum says that the Abbess of
Monvicaro at the very advanced age of one hundred had a