From midday of Thursdays, when she took a frugal
meal, until eight o'clock on Saturday mornings the girl took no
nourishment, not even water, because it was said that she did not
feel the want of it and could not retain anything upon her
stomach. During this time the ordinary secretions were
suspended."
Fournier mentions a statesman of forty-five who, following great
Cabinet labors during several years and after some worriment,
found that the day after indulging in sexual indiscretions he
would be in a febrile condition, with pains in the thighs,
groins, legs, and penis. The veins of these parts became
engorged, and subsequently blood oozed from them, the flow
lasting several days. The penis was the part most affected. He
was under observation for twenty months and presented the same
phenomena periodically, except that during the last few months
they were diminished in every respect. Fournier also mentions a
curious case of diapedesis in a woman injured by a cow. The
animal struck her in the epigastric region, she fell unconscious,
and soon after vomited great quantities of blood, and continued
with convulsive efforts of expulsion to eject blood periodically
from every eight to fifteen days, losing possibly a pound at each
paroxysm.
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