[Ads-l] Antedating of "Menstruation"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Sep 8 19:07:05 UTC 2020


menstruation (OED 1754)

1686 Gideon Harvey _The Conclave of Physicians_ 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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