The menstruation returned, but she
never became pregnant, and, later, blood issued from the healthy
skin of the left breast and right forearm, recurring every month
or two, and finally additional dermal hemorrhage developed on the
forehead. Microscopic examination of the exuded blood showed
usual constituents present. There are two somewhat similar cases
spoken of in French literature. The first was that of a young
lady, who, after ten years' suppression of the menstrual
discharge, exhibited the flow from a vesicular eruption on the
finger. The other case was quite peculiar, the woman being a
prostitute, who menstruated from time to time through spots, the
size of a five-franc piece, developing on the breasts, buttocks,
back, axilla, and epigastrium. Barham records a case similar to
the foregoing, in which the menstruation assumed the character of
periodic purpura. Duchesne mentions an instance of complete
amenorrhea, in which the ordinary flow was replaced by periodic
sweats.
Parrot speaks of a woman who, when seven months old, suffered
from strumous ulcers, which left cicatrices on the right hand,
from whence, at the age of six years, issued a sanguineous
discharge with associate convulsions.
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