Laycock,
in 1840 (_Nervous Diseases of Women_, p. 46), gave instances of
women with an intermenstrual period. Depaul and Gueniot
(_Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Sciences Medicales_, Art.,
"Menstruation," p. 694) speak of intermenstrual symptoms, and
even actual flow, as occurring in women who are in a perfect
state of health, and constituting genuine "_regles
surnumeraries_." The condition is, however, said to have been
first fully described by Valleix; then, in 18725 by Sir William
Priestley; and subsequently by Fehling, Fasbender, Sorel,
Halliday Croom, Findley, Addinsell, and others. (See, for
instance, "Mittelschmerz," by J. Halliday Croom, _Transactions of
Edinburgh Obstetrical Society_, vol. xxi, 1896. Also, Krieger,
_Menstruation_, pp. 68-69.) Fliess (_Die Beziehungen zwischen
Nase und weiblichen Geschlechts-Organen_, p. 118) goes so far as
to assert that an intermenstrual period of menstrual
symptoms--which he terms _Nebenmenstruation_--is "a phenomenon
well known to most healthy women." Observations are at present
too few to allow any definite conclusions, and in some of the
cases so far recorded a pathological condition of the sexual
organs has been found to exist. Rosner, of Cracow, however, found
that only in one case out of twelve was there any disease present
(_La Gynecologie_, June, 1905), and Storer, who has met with
twenty cases, insists on the remarkable and definite regularity
of the manifestations, wholly unlike those of neuralgia (_Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal_, April 19, 1900).
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