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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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Marcellus Donatus and Benivenius exemplify this with cases.

Instances of vicarious and compensatory epistaxis and hemoptysis are so common that any examples would be superfluous.

There is recorded an inexplicable case of menstruation from the region of the sternum, and among the curious anomalies of menstruation must be mentioned that reported by Parvin seen in a woman, who, at the menstrual epoch, suffered hemoptysis and oozing of blood from the lips and tongue.
Occasionally there was a substitution of a great swelling of the tongue, rendering mastication and articulation very difficult for four or five days.

Parvin gives portraits showing the venous congestion and discoloration of the lips.
Instances of migratory menstruation, the flow moving periodically from the ordinary passage to the breasts and mammae, are found in the older writers.

Salmuth speaks of a woman on whose hands appeared spots immediately before the establishment of the menses.


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