THEORY OF MENSTRUATION.

Case of Vicarious Menstruation

The Mechanism of Menstruation

N.F. Santoro and G. Neal-Perry (eds.), Amenorrhea: A case-Based, clinical Guide, Contemporary endocrinology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-60327-864-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Menstruation is a result of the profound tissue remodeling that occurs each month in reproductive-aged women. After withdrawal of steroid hormone support, the functionalis layer of the endometrium undergoes exte...

Influence of menstruation on glaucoma.

PREMENSTRUAL migraine and closed-angle glaucoma have many points of similarity: thus both may be provoked by the water-drinking test; all are more severe in the early morning; contributory factors precipitating attacks include emotional stress and fatigue; and in both there may be other systemic disturbances such as nausea, lethargy, and vertigo. The excitable temperament of patients with close...

A Case of Vicarious Menstruation

The various remarkable and wonderful deviations which Dame Nature from time to time makes, either through what appears to us in our extreme ignorance to be but sheer caprice, or for the accomplishment of wise and salutary ends, form a most interesting and instructive subject of study to the observant and thoughtful physician. He cannot but be struck with the fact that nature in these departures...

Menstruation: curse or blessing?

Cleansing or curse? Menstruation in our lifetime has been commonly called ‘The Curse’. Our sisters in the 16th century, however, welcomed this cleansing as a fertility sign from God, through the moon that determined the tides of all that flowed on the earth. These tides included the four humorous fluids that made up each of us and determined, by balance, the health of an individual. Ancient med...