Cecil relates an instance of menstruation on the sixth day,
continuing for five days, in which six or eight drams of blood
were lost. Peeples cites an instance in Texas in an infant at the
age of five days, which was associated with a remarkable
development of the genital organs and breasts. Van Swieten offers
an example at the first month; the British Medical Journal at the
second month; Conarmond at the third month. Ysabel, a young slave
girl belonging to Don Carlos Pedro of Havana, began to menstruate
soon after birth, and at the first year was regular in this
function. At birth her mamma were well developed and her axillae
were slightly covered with hair. At the age of thirty-two months
she was three feet ten inches tall, and her genitals and mammae
resembled those of a girl of thirteen. Her voice was grave and
sonorous; her moral inclinations were not known. Deever records
an instance of a child two years and seven months old who, with
the exception of three months only, had menstruated regularly
since the fourth month. Harle speaks of a child, the youngest of
three girls, who had a bloody discharge at the age of five months
which lasted three days and recurred every month until the child
was weaned at the tenth month.
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