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The niddah repels the forces of the holy, and her spiritual vacuum is immediately filled by the forces of evil and impurity. (Koren 2011)

The head may be hot and throbbing, the feet cold, and the person suffer from heaviness and discomfort rather than a localized pain. (Craig Potter 1910)

menstrual blood could be a medicine (Hindson 2009)

Sidewalks will have blood trails, like Gretel’s bread crumbs. (Bass 1980)

I believe it took us a short amount of time to register what we’d seen, to actually realize that what we’d witnessed was blood, a “period,” not catsup or oil paints, no joking around. (Zelman 1991)

refusing certain “facts” of physical existence, namely menstruation, (Urgo 1988)

In several hundred women I find that twenty-five per cent, were unprepared for its appearance; (Tilt 1851)

Gorrindo et al. (2007) found that lifelong menstrual histories were most typically erratic. (Derry & Derry 2012)

Menstruation seemed mysterious. (Crawford 1981)

Articles describing menstrual bleeding as being good for women’s health have appeared in magazines and newspapers, frequently written by women with premenstrual tension who experience relief from these symptoms with the arrival of their menstrual flow. (Coutinho & Segal 1996)

The 2002 Ethnology special issue “Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution” edited by Janet Hoskins explores theories and practices related to menstruation from a transcultural perspective. (Fedele 2014)

The Strain Of School Life On Girls During The Early Menstrual Period (Johnston 1935)

I shall spend some time just staring at it mind-body-fully, say, phenomenologically, feminist phenomenologically: what is this, a menstrual event, a pause? (Lee 2017)

The subjects were schoolgirls, living under fairly civilized but by no means modern city conditions. (Hrdlicka 1936)

Buffy’s menstruation likely exists in the minds of fans even without it being shown because the issue seems so obvious. (Rosewarne 2012)

And I don’t feel like bein’ nice to nobody
Don’t feel like smilin’, no, don’t feel like smilin’, no, no (Blige 2001)

If there were not external evidence of it a large proportion of women would not know when it was taking place. This is the normal state of affairs. (Sanderson Clow & Phillips 1924)

the pulse rate and often the temperature increase; (Beauvoir 1949)

Attitudes to menstruation and menstrual blood were unlikely to have changed drastically between the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, (Hindson 2009)

Hamilton (1929) found that out of 100 American women only eighteen said “No” to the question “Are you likely to be depressed shortly before, during, or immediately after menstruation?” (McCance, Luff & Widdowson 1937)

On 26 August 1988, we obtained 6 used tampons from 6 women and presented the tampons as a group, 6-9 hours later, by hand to each of 7 wild, free-ranging black bears (Rogers, Wilker & Scott 1991)

Mothers who, in other respects, act judiciously, will not condescend so far to bow down to the infirmities of their nature, as to give the necessary advice to their daughters; (Tilt 1851)

The table below compares the advantages and disadvantages of further sanitary materials (HOUSE et al. 2012). (Kaiser 2008)

the toxic substances in tampons and commercial menstrual products; (Fahs 2016)

most women are aware of their menstrual pattern (Unknown author 1981)

the “something that happens to them once a month” as a kind of “physical ceremony” (Urgo 1988)

In the description of menstruation, for example, we move from the monthly malaise to the moment which delivers the young girl from ‘despotism’ with such speed that it takes two readings to recognize that the despotism is not physiological, but paternal. (Goldberg 1984)

Since my girlhood I have known that normal menstruation is a painless function, (Sanderson Clow & Phillips 1924)

Menstruation is a very late arrival in the evolution of viviparity (Finn 1998)

Whilst expounding the belief that ‘painful menstruation is a condition so common and so distressing’, practitioners and gynaecologists were still puzzled by the origins and nature of menstruation. (Strange 2000)