[Ads-l] Antedating of menopause

[Hugo]

The OED is seeking antedatings of entries between M and R:
https://public.oed.com/appeals/oed-antedatings/
<https://public.oed.com/appeals/oed-antedatings/#>

That page gives an example:
* menopause: antedated from 1872 to 1858 using Google Books

Here's a further antedating, in an 1851 letter published in 1852:

The Lancet
No. 1479, January 3, 1852, p1-31
"On Healthy and Morbid Menstruation, by J. Henry Bennet M.D."
page 36:

"Menstruation generally ceases between forty-five and fifty, but the
menopause may occur much earlier or much later."

Letter signed off: "Cambridge-square, Hyde-park, 1851"

https://books.google.fi/books?id=RwICAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA36&dq=menopause+before:1858&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijvI_bjq7pAhULwqYKHS34DDUQ6AEI6wEwFQ#v=onepage&q=menopause&f=false

Hugo

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