About four to six days before the periodic time, commence to treat as follows, using a moderate force_: Insert the uterine electrode, N. P., wet in warm water, per vagina, until it meets the uterus; and manipulate with P. P. over the dorsal and first two lumbar vertebræ, and more or less over the back on both sides of the spinal column, some six or eight minutes daily, down to the period fixed upon for the catamenia to appear.— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
THE BOUNDARY-LINE.--Menstruation--"the periods"--the appearance of the catamenia or the menses--is then one of the most important epochs in a girl's life.— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
It is also called the catamenia or catamenia-flow (Greek, kata--by, men--a month).— Woman Her Sex and Love Life
The streaks represent catamenia, and the gradual growth of the moon is assumed to be parallel with prenatal growth G—This single symbol, a maltese cross, represents the four personages who made the stars.— The North American Indian
She was then sufficiently well-developed, and had a good color; all the functions appeared to act normally, and the catamenia were fairly established.— Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls

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