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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER I
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The menstruation was tolerably regular, occurring every thirty-two or thirty-three days, and lasting from one to six days.

At the cessation of the menstrual flow, she generally had a supplementary epistaxis, and on one occasion, when this was omitted, she suffered a sudden effusion into the anterior chamber of the eye.

The discharge had only lasted two hours on this occasion.

He also relates an example of hemorrhage into the vitreous humor in a case of amenorrhea.
Conjunctival hemorrhage has been noticed as a manifestation of vicarious menstruation by several American observers.

Liebreich found examples of retinal hemorrhage in suppressed menstruation, and Sir James Paget says that he has seen a young girl at Moorfields who had a small effusion of blood into the anterior chamber of the eye at the menstrual period, which became absorbed during the intervals of menstruation.


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