Further Antedating of "Menstruation"

[Fred Shapiro]

menstruation (OED3 1753-4)

1686 Gideon Harvey _The Conclave of Physicians in Two Parts_ 87 (Early
English Books Online)  Where Nature was imployed in any beneficial
Evacuation (as in our case of Menstruation) she was not to be molested by
multiplicity of Medicines.

Fred Shapiro


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