ant extraordinary. Dewees mentions an example
of menstruation at sixty-five, and others at fifty-four and fifty-five
years. Motte speaks of a case at sixty-one; Ryan and others, at
fifty-five, sixty, and sixty-five; Parry, from sixty-six to seventy
seven; Desormeux, from sixty to seventy-five; Semple, at seventy and
eighty seven; Higgins, at seventy-six; Whitehead, at seventy-seven;
Bernstein, at seventy-eight; Beyrat, at eighty-seven; Haller, at one
hundred; and highest of all is Blancardi's case, in which menstruation
was present at one hundred and six years. In the London Medical and
Surgical Journal, 1831, are reported cases at eighty and ninety-five
years. In Good's System of Nosology there are instances occurring at
seventy-one, eighty, and ninety years. There was a woman in Italy
whose menstrual function continued from twenty-four to ninety years.
Emmet cites an instance of menstruation at seventy, and Brierre de
Boismont one of a woman who menstruated regularly from her
twenty-fourth year to the time of her death at ninety-two.

Strasberger of Beeskow describes a woman who ceased menstruating at
forty-two, who remained in good health up to eighty, suffering slight
attacks of rheumatism only, and at this late age was seized with
abdominal pains, followed by menstruation, which continued for three
years; the woman died the next year. This late menstruation had all the
sensible characters of the early one. Kennard mentions a negress, aged
ninety-one, who menstruated at fourteen, ceased at forty-nine, and at
eighty-two commenced again, and was regular for four years, but had had
no return since. On the return of her menstruation, believing that her
procreative powers were returning, she married a vigorous negro of
thirty-five and experienced little difficulty in satisfying his
desires. Du Peyrou de Cheyssiole and Bonhoure speak of an aged peasant
woman, past ninety-one years of age, who menstruated regularly.

Petersen describes a woman of seventy-nine, who on March 26th was
seized with uterine pains lasting a few days and terminating with
hemorrhagic discharge. On April 23d she was seized again, and a
discharge commenced on the 25th, continuing four days. Up to the time
of the report, one year after, this menstruation had been regular.
There is an instance on record of a female who menstruated every three
months during the period from her fiftieth to her seventy-fourth year,
the discharge, however, being very sli