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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 72 The seede of Darnell giuen in white or rhenish wine, prouoketh the flowers or menses.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 555 A muske-catte..is very profitable..for the bringing forth of those Womens menses or fluxes which are stopped.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 27 Jan. (1970) II. 24 My wife now sick of her menses at home.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 92 Myrrh provokes the Menses, and forwards Delivery.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. v. 176 Great is the medicinal virtue of these waters..in curing ischuries, and ulcerated kidneys; the gout, the palsy, obstructions of the menses, old gleets, and barrenness.

1781 W. Hamilton Let. 30 Dec. in R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus (1786) 6 [The] half-moon is supposed to have an allusion to the female menses.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 46 Yet menostation may take place from a suppression of the menses after they have become habitual.

1896 T. C. Allbutt & W. S. Playfair Syst. Gynæcol. 345 The suppression of the menses that occurs in young obese women is to be accounted for in the same way.

1931 Endocrinol. 15 180 The problem of polymenorrhea, too profuse and too frequent menses,..is a very vital one to the gynecologist.

1976 Dyke Fall 32/1 I felt a comfort in the relationship of the moon to menses and menstruation, to the tides, and to Cancer, my astrological moon sign.

1987 Muscle & Fitness Oct. 47/2 To help control for variables in the menstrual cycle, subjects were included only if their average time between menses was at least 24 days.