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. There was no alteration of
her menses. A physician gave her astringents, which partly suppressed
the vomiting, but the hemorrhage changed to the skin, and every day she
sweated blood from the chest, back of the thighs, feet, and the
extremities of the fingers. When the blood ceased to flow from her skin
she lost her appetite, became oppressed, and was confined to her bed
for some days. Itching always preceded the appearance of a new flow.
There was no dermal change that could be noticed.

Fullerton mentions a girl of thirteen who had occasional oozing of
blood from her brow, face, and the skin under the eyes. Sometimes a
pound of clots was found about her face and pillow. The blood first
appeared in a single clot, and, strange to say, lumps of fleshy
substance and minute pieces of bone were discharged all day. This
latter discharge became more infrequent, the bone being replaced by
cartilaginous substance. There was no pain, discoloration, swelling, or
soreness, and after this strange anomaly disappeared menstruation
regularly commenced. Van Swieten mentions a young lady who from her
twelfth year at her menstrual periods had hemorrhages from pustules in
the skin, the pustules disappearing in the interval.

Schmidt's Jahrbucher for 1836 gives an account of a woman who had
diseased ovaries and a rectovesicovaginal fistu