A young Lady, of a tender, lax habit, about fifteen, before the Menses
appear’d, was seiz’d with a fit of this Disease, and groan’d so
miserably that she awoke her Father, who was sleeping in the next room.
He arose, ran into her chamber, and found her lying on her Back, and
the Blood gushing plentifully out of her Mouth and Nose. When he shook
her, she recover’d, and told him, that she thought some great heavy Man
came to her bedside, and, without farther ceremony, stretched himself
upon her. She had been heard moaning in sleep several nights before;
but, the next day after she imagin’d herself oppress’d by that Man,
she had a copious eruption of the Menses, which, for that time, remov’d
all her complaints.