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St. Catharine of Sienna, b. near Braga in Portugal, hence sometimes known as "Lusitanus"; d. at Nantes, 2 January, 1585.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Zacutus Lusitanus * [831] speaks of a Viceroy of India who had a long attack of stubborn priapism without any voluptuous feeling.
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Amatus Lusitanus * [119] relates the case of a monk who fainted when he beheld a rose, and never quitted his cell when that flower was in bloom.
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Black sweat has been mentioned by Bartholinus, 9.24 who remarked that the secretion resembled ink; in other cases Galeazzi 9.25 and Zacutus Lusitanus 9.26 said the perspiration resembled sooty water.
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Amatus Lusitanus * [119] mentions a similar instance in an old woman, although, from the symptoms given, the direct cause was probably tetanus.
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Zacutus Lusitanus 6.296 says that he once found a mass of flesh in place of the liver.
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Amatus Lusitanus * [119] and Schenck have observed lactation in old women; in recent years Dunglison has collected some instances.
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Zacutus Lusitanus 1.64 relates the history of a case of uterine occlusion, with the flow from the lips of the cervix.
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Amatus Lusitanus 6.146 and Portal 6.147 refer to the presence of hair on the tongue, and later there was an account of a medical student 6.148 who complained of dyspepsia and a sticky sensation in the mouth.
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Amatus Lusitanus * [119] speaks of a drunken courtesan who was wounded in a fray with a long, sharp-pointed knife which was driven into the head.
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