King relates that while attending a course of medical lectures at the University of Louisiana he formed the acquaintance of a young student who possessed the normal male generative organs, but in whom the simulated function of menstruation was periodically performed.

The cause was inexplicable, and the unfortunate victim was the subject of deep chagrin, and was afflicted with melancholia.

He had menstruated for three years in this manner: a fluid exuded from the sebaceous glands of the deep fossa behind the corona glandis; this fluid was of the same appearance as the menstrual flux.

The quantity was from one to two ounces, and the discharge lasted from three to six days.

At this time the student was twenty-two years of age, of a lymphatic temperament, not particularly lustful, and was never the victim of any venereal disease.