Up to the time of the report, one year after, this menstruation had been regular.
There is an instance on record of a female who menstruated every three months during the period from her fiftieth to her seventy-fourth year, the discharge, however, being very slight.

Thomas cites an instance of a woman of sixty-nine who had had no menstruation since her forty-ninth year, but who commenced again the year he saw her.

Her mother and sister were similarly affected at the age of sixty, in the first case attributable to grief over the death of a son, in the second ascribed to fright.

It seemed to be a peculiar family idiosyncrasy.

Velasquez of Tarentum says that the Abbess of Monvicaro at the very advanced age of one hundred had a recurrence of catamenia after a severe illness, and subsequently a new set of teeth and a new growth of hair.
Late Establishment of Menstruation .-- In some cases menstruation never appears until late in life, presenting the same phenomena as normal menstruation.