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Blair relates the history of a case of vicarious menstruation attended with conjunctivitis and opacity of the cornea. Law speaks of a plethoric woman of thirty who bled freely from the eyes, though menstruating regularly. Relative to menstruation from the ear, Spindler, Paullini, and Alibert furnish examples.
In Paullini's case the discharge is spoken of as very foul, which makes it quite possible that this was a case of middle-ear disease associated with some menstrual disturbance, and not one of true vicarious menstruation.
Alibert's case was consequent upon suppression of the menses.
Law cites an instance in a woman of twenty-three, in whom the menstrual discharge was suspended several months.
She experienced fulness of the head and bleeding (largely from the ears), which subsequently occurred periodically, being preceded by much throbbing; but the patient finally made a good recovery.
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