INFANTILE MENSTRUATION.

Case of Vicarious Menstruation

Menstruation: curse or blessing?

Cleansing or curse? Menstruation in our lifetime has been commonly called ‘The Curse’. Our sisters in the 16th century, however, welcomed this cleansing as a fertility sign from God, through the moon that determined the tides of all that flowed on the earth. These tides included the four humorous fluids that made up each of us and determined, by balance, the health of an individual. Ancient med...

Woman, moon and menstruation.

“The pituitary has an intrinsic rhythm of small amplitude with a frequency of every two to ten minutes. Superimposed on this intrinsic rhythm is a rhythm caused by the pulsatile release of hypophysiotropic releasing factors, with or without the withdrawal of a corresponding inhibitory factor. Rhythms that are shorter than a day are referred to as ultradian rhythms. The next layer of rhythmicity...

On Painful Menstruation

Precocious menstruation in hypothyroidism.

C.v.B. is a girl who was born of psychopathic criminal and, in all probability, mentally subnormal parents. Her mental and physical development was backward from birth; at the age of 4 she could walk but did not speak. Earlier data are lacking. She stayed in several children's homes, and from the age of 9 she was in the Institution for Mentally Deficient Children in Noordwijk. At the age of 1 1...