Menses

The term Menses is derived from the Latin word mensis, which signifies a month, because in healthy women, who are neither pregnant nor giving suck, this discharge generally flows regularly at intervals of a lunar month, or about twenty eight days.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849

This is framed with Roger Waters '"Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking", and narrowly beat out my Giles/Oz friendship story Stupid in The Sun He Lies which is framed with Millay's "Menses", and I think I'm sensing a theme in my favorite stories.

March 9th, 2007 2007

The interspersed quotations are from Edna St. Vincent Millay's beautiful poem "Menses".

February 17th, 2004 2004

Coulter claims mistake, thought Mens Room was Menses Room.

Rudy Planning To Spend Part Of 9/11 Anniversary With Noted Basher Of 9/11 Widows 2009

Coulter claims mistake, thought Mens Room was Menses Room.

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Galen, in his Book of Bleeding, attributes the Origin of the Menses to a Plethora.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

Galen, in his Book of Bleeding, attributes the Origin of the Menses to a Plethora.

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

Menses were the tool by which human women subversively kept track of time during the centuries since humans had been reduced from conquerors to being hunted and killed throughout the Galaxy

The Saturn Game Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1981

"Menses Giuli a conversione solis in auctum dici, quia unus eorum præcedit, alius subsequitur, nomina acceperunt": alluding to the

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

(Tsa-his-lee-ah-nah-tah-gah-ta-gee.) By retention of the Menses, is meant the retaining or keeping of the menstrual fluid, after the period of life has arrived when this discharge should take place.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849