One day, while in violent
grief, she shed bloody tears. She menstruated at the age of
eleven, and was temporarily improved in her condition; but after
any strong emotion the hemorrhages returned. The subsidence of
the bleeding followed her first pregnancy, but subsequently on
one occasion, when the menses were a few days in arrears, she
exhibited a blood-like exudation from the forehead, eyelids, and
scalp. As in the case under D'Andrade's observation, the
exudation was found by microscopic examination to consist of the
true constituents of blood. An additional element of complication
in this case was the occurrence of occasional attacks of
hematemesis.
Menstruation from the Breasts.--Being in close sympathy with the
generative function, we would naturally expect to find the female
mammae involved in cases of anomalous menstruation, and the truth
of this supposition is substantiated in the abundance of such
cases on record. Schenck reports instances of menstruation from
the nipple; and Richter, de Fontechia, Laurentius, Marcellus
Donatus, Amatus Lusitanus, and Bierling are some of the older
writers who have observed this anomaly. Pare says the wife of
Pierre de Feure, an iron merchant, living at Chasteaudun,
menstruated such quantities from the breasts each month that
several serviettes were necessary to receive the discharge.
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