A young Lady, about twenty, of a full, sanguineous habit, and lax
system of Fibres, labour’d under an obstinate obstruction of the
Catamenia for six months. About six weeks after her first period
elaps’d, she had a severe fit of the Night-mare, and next morning
she spit near a pound of Blood, part of which was coagulated. She
complain’d of an anxiety and oppression in her Breast, for several days
afterwards. She soon grew well, and continued so ’till a month had
pass’d, when the Night-mare return’d, and was succeeded by a spitting
of Blood; but the second fit was not so severe as the first. She had
periodical fits and discharges of this kind, ’till, by proper remedies,
the redundant streams were convey’d through their usual channels,
which at the same time carried off the cause and heavy effect of the
Nightmare.