The majority of women patients say that they first used alcohol in the shape of whisky, brandy or gin to relieve pain at the time of the menstrual period.
It construed the menstrual hemorrhage as a subsidiary phenomenon, entirely dependent on the periodic dehiscence of ovules.
Sometimes the first menstrual discharge appears suddenly, lasts for a few days, and then stops; it may appear after an interval of two or three weeks, or not for several months.
He believes that there is an excess of male children when conception takes place during the post-menstrual anemia.
Race does unquestionably influence the duration, but given a sound healthy race, which is not too much enervated with civilization, and the menstrual process will, equally with the total physical vigor and the vitality, be increased.
He considers that this is probably secondary to the chain of peripheral irritation from the uterine glands, but that this secretion is none the less an essential feature of the menstrual process.
Women who do not suffer from leuchorrhea need not take a vaginal douche more than once a week; after the menstrual flow the vaginal injection is advised to remove the detritus of the flow.
This wave indicates a periodic variation in the bodily metabolism, and is probably directly influenced by the rhythmic activity of the menstrual center.
This has been said to be due to the fact that "the menstrual fluid is held in horror, dire consequences being supposed to result from not merely the contact, but even the very sight of it.
To get rid of the pollution of the first menstrual period, holy water is sprinkled over the girl by a Brahman, after she has bathed.
Hence the isolation and purification of women during the menstrual period, and the extreme care and anxiety with which the first approach of puberty in a girl is watched.
On the occasion of the first menstrual period, a girl is under pollution for twelve days.
If this ceremony is intended to signify a real marriage, the girl is taken to her husband's house on the fourth day of the first menstrual period, and they remain thenceforth man and wife.
The case proved to be one of accumulation of menstrual fluid in the uterus.
In cases where it is an object to conceal pregnancy, the appearance of the menstrual fluid upon the clothes has been imitated in order to deceive.
One of the most remarkable changes produced by pregnancy, and one which most constantly appears, is the cessation of the menstrual discharge.
In conclusion we may briefly state that the same circumstances which in the unimpregnated condition produce menstrual derangement and other disorders of the uterine system, now act as so many causes of abortion.
The menstrual blood is more pale and sparing: it usually comes from the haemorrhoidal vessels of the vagina, or at most, from those of the cervix uteri.
The suppression of the menstrual periods, is an interruption of that accustomed evacuation of blood, which comes from the matrix every month, and the part affected is the womb.
So that the blood is not only the matter of generating the child, but also seed, it being impossible that menstrual blood has both principles.
Another at Pushkar turns red if the shadow of a woman during her menstrual period fall upon it.
Hence they are not allowed to expose themselves to his rays at the menstrual period.
In the Hills, if a woman dies during the menstrual period or in childbirth, the corpse is anointed with the five products of the cow, and special texts are recited.
Polak[192] describes an operation for the preservation of the menstrual function in double suppurative disease of the tubes and chronic metritis.
The infection may extend up into the uterus at the menstrual period or just after parturition.
The most ready method is to add seven days to the first day of the last menstrual flow, count back three months, and add one year, when we have the future date when, or about when, delivery may be expected.
An exact estimate is but guess work; errors of one or two weeks either way may be made by the most experienced, as in cases where conception occurred shortly before the next menstrual period, which did not then appear.
A sudden pain in the abdomen of a woman during menstrual life, with positively no unusual menstrual symptoms and no trouble in the right ileo-cecal region, indicates perforation of the stomach or of the gall-bladder.
Supposing the upper figure in each pair of horizontal lines to represent the first day of the last menstrual period, the figure beneath it, with the month designated in the margin, will show the probable date of confinement.
It can be said that at each and every menstrual period there is a physiological catarrh, which belongs to the natural process of the menstrual function.
The great functional activity to which the ovaries are subjected at each menstrual period, make them extremely liable to an inflammatory process, so that women cannot be too careful of themselves at this precarious period.
A stricture of the cervical canal, occasioned by the womb being flexed, will interfere with the egress of the menstrual flow, and this also may give rise to inflammation.
The quantity of the natural menstrual discharge, as well as the time or duration, varies greatly in health with different individuals.
Nature has set a time during which continence should be practiced for the purpose of preserving the health and controlling the reproductive function, that is, the menstrual period.
These painful paroxysms of uterine colic repeat themselves at each recurring menstrual period, and through these repetitions of pain and suffering, the general health becomes greatly deranged.
If this secretion is prolonged beyond the normal period that constitutes healthy menstruation, or if it continues to be present at any time between the menstrual periods, it constitutes a disease or a catarrh.
The suppression of the courses or menstrual discharges is considered in the popular mind an unerring proof of pregnancy, yet, as a matter of fact, this is far from the truth.
Ova, number discharged at the menstrual period, 131.
That menstrual troubles and leucorrhœa are merely symptoms of this morbid state.
The menstrual period should not be attended by pain or discomfort; nor should our girls be brought up to regard it as a time of sickness.
In the majority of cases, menstrual pain in girls is due to nerve tension, anæmia and poor circulation, improper clothing, and mental attitude.
Being diluted by this admixture, the menstrual blood coagulates less perfectly than ordinary blood; and the frequent acidity of the vaginal mucus tends still further to diminish its coagulability.
Sometimes, however, this septum is complete, and the menstrual fluid is retained month after month, until appearances and symptoms much like those of pregnancy are produced, giving rise to perhaps unjust suspicions.
The use of the menstrual discharge seems to be to prepare the uterine system for conception.
In relation to sterility, I would here bring to mind, what has before been stated, that a woman is most likely to conceive immediately after a menstrual turn.
The lady was at that time within a week of her menstrual period; but as this did not fail to take place, she was led to hope that she had not suffered by the visit of her husband.
At each menstrual period, a Graafian vesicle becomes enlarged, bursts, and lets the ovum which it contains escape into the Fallopian tube, along which it passes to the uterus.
Kirkes remarks, that "although conception is not confined to the periods of menstruation, yet it is more likely to occur within a few days after cessation of the menstrual flux than at other times.
Dewees remarks, "Perhaps it is not erring greatly to say, that the woman is liable to conceive at any part of the menstrual interval.
Nagmulù siya kay nasirhan siya ug dugù, She is worried because she has missed several menstrual periods.
Wà mutindug ang babáyi kay gitagpasan diay, The woman didn’t want to get up because her menstrual blood had seeped through her skirt.
Gilapsan ku, maung mag-ílis ku, I got menstrual blood on my dress so I have to change.
Rigular ang íyang rigla, She has a normal menstrual cycle and normal amounts of discharge.
Mukurta ang dugù ug mag-útas ug káun ug aslum, Your menstrual flow will halt if you always eat lots of sour foods.
Labhi ang dinug-an, Wash the clothes you got menstrual blood on.
Is it any wonder they become sickly, become victims of hysteria and suffer from menstrual disorders?
The best rule is to count backward three months from the first day of the lastmenstrual period and add seven days to it.
Mainly for menstrual disorders, when suppressed or too profuse, dysmenorrhea.
Motherwort is one of the most useful herbs to relieve obstructed menstrual flow.
For menstrual troubles, checked lochia and perspiration, take a hot foot bath in bed and drink freely of the tea until sweating occurs.
In some cases the menses cause it, and it appears at every menstrual period.
Constipation and menstrual troubles should be cured, worry, trouble and anxiety, if possible, be removed.
Frequently it is caused by overwork in school in young girls, especially during their menstrual periods.
Blondes who have menstrual troubles also when caused by fat greasy foods.
Oil, five to ten drops on sugar for menstrual pain, and in painful urination.
It usually occurs in blondes of from twelve to twenty years of age and most often from fourteen to seventeen years of age, when the menstrual function is being established and during which time they are rushed with their school work.
It is used in decoction to regulate menstruation, and should be taken freely and warm and begun a day before the menstrual period.
The attacks in women are likely to occur at or near the menstrual periods.
She was, however, able to report that, previous to the enforcement of this arrangement, many girls working treadle machines would go home during their menstrual periods, and now very few feel the need to do this.
The fatigue resulting from the hours of labour weakens their resistance to disease, and they are liable to fall victims to any epidemics, while anaemia, gastric and menstrual disturbances are very frequent about this age.
Evidence as to the effects of standing on the menstrual function will be discussed later.
When death in the family made it inadvisable to hold a dance on a girl's first menstrual period, everyone agreed that it was indeed a shame.
An experienced observer of these people tells us that the blood of childbirth "appears to the eyes of the South Africans to be tainted with a pollution still more dangerous than that of the menstrual fluid.
Here, therefore, the rule of continence probably springs from a fear of infecting sympathetically the traps with feminine weakness or perhaps with menstrual pollution.
An Australian blackfellow, who discovered that his wife had lain on his blanket at her menstrual period, killed her and died of terror himself within a fortnight.
During the menstrual flow there should be an entire cessation of the conjugal act.
Mothers or guardians should instruct young girls in good time as to the expected menstrual function and prepare their minds for its advent.
Rest should be enforced during the menstrual periods of these earlier years, and milder, more graduated exercise taken at other times.
It is more liable to occur in the earlier than in the later months of pregnancy, and it would also appear to occur more readily at the periods corresponding to those of the menstrual discharge.
Aloes also tends to increase the menstrual flow and therefore belongs to the group of emmenagogues.
Women are impure for five days during the menstrual period.
The Raj-Gonds have the same rules as Hindus regarding the menstrualperiods of women.
The Gonds regard a woman as impure for as long as themenstrual period lasts, and during this time she cannot draw water nor cook food, nor go into a cowshed or touch cowdung.
Belladonna: frequently given in frontal headache, especially at menstrual period, or if from fatigue.
Cimicifuga: in nervous and rheumatic headache, especially at menstrual period.
Cimicifuga: often useful, especially when menstrual derangement, and in rheumatic history.
For though he do take notice of a Menstrual Period; yet he doth it onely as to the Quantity of the Tides; greater or less; not as to the Time of the Tides, sooner or later.
This is especially important in the case of girls, for many a girl has been physically and mentally injured because a prudish mother has procrastinated too long the giving of information regarding the first menstrual period.
Cool bathing in the morning, especially of the sexual organs, is hygienic, except for girls during the monthly periods (including two days before the expected menstrual onset).
