By chance, while working as an English teacher I also have a degree in English I discovered other women were suffering from what is termed catamenial epilepsy, seizures caused by the menstrual cycle. ❋ Jo Ann Greenwald (2011)
I know that the Yale Law School doesn't just let anyone in (and the only language missing from the frequent quotations at Scott Horton's Harper's blog, as far as I can tell, is Hittite), but what are the chances that this law student being interviewed would a) know the word "catamenial" and b) use it in conversation? ❋ Unknown (2008)
The last described form of dysmenorrhœa is sometimes attended with spasmodic contraction of the _os uteri_, thus preventing the catamenial flow. ❋ Daniel Clark (N/A)
During the catamenial period, _i. e._, during one week out of every month, a woman should abandon intellectual or physical labor, either because she is already incapacitated for it, or because she will be so ultimately, if she does not take the precautionary rest. ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)
Lie thou down with me on thy own bed, after the catamenial bath, on the night of the eighth or the fourteenth day of the moon. ' ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Emmenagogues are remedies which have the property of exciting the catamenial flow; ecbolics, or abortives, are drugs which excite contraction of the uterus, and are supposed to have the power of expelling its contents. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
After her first catamenial these flashes of speechlessness and thought came only at this time. ❋ Unknown (1916)
It is undoubtedly the fact that meat will be tainted if cured by women at the catamenial period. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
It is probably the influence of these primitive ideas which has caused surgeons and gynæcologists to dread operations during the catamenial period. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
There is no doubt that many young women have permanently injured their constitutions while at school by excessive mental taxation during the catamenial period, to which they were prompted by ambition to excel, or were compelled by the "cramming" system too generally pursued in our schools, and particularly in young ladies 'seminaries. ❋ John Harvey Kellogg (1897)
Her husband died when thirty-six years old, and ever since the catamenial flow had shown itself with great regularity. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Frommann 1.4 mentions a man who said he saw a tree in Goa which withered because a catamenial napkin was hung on it. ❋ Unknown (1896)
The older authors quoted several such instances, and Mehliss says that in the ancient days certain writers remarked that catamenial lustration from the penis was inflicted on the Jews as a divine punishment. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Mehliss says that in the ancient days certain writers remarked that catamenial lustration from the penis was inflicted on the Jews as a divine punishment. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Frommann mentions a man who said he saw a tree in Goa which withered because a catamenial napkin was hung on it. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Le Conte quotes five similar cases, and mentions one in which a lightning-shock to a woman of twenty-nine produced amenorrhea, whereas she had previously suffered from profuse menstruation, and also mentions another case of a woman of seventy who was struck unconscious; the catamenial discharge which had ceased twenty years before, was now permanently reestablished, and the shrunken mammæ again resumed their full contour. ❋ Unknown (1896)
