On the Secrets of Women

According to which it is to be noted, that the menstrual flow menstruum menstrual blood in a woman is nothing other than superfluous nourishment that does not depart into the substance of the body, just as semen sperma seminal fluid is in men. It is called the menstrual flow in a woman because it flows in every month at least once, once the woman has reached a certain age, that is, 12, 13, or 14 years, and as it most frequently happens, in the fourteenth year. The flow of the menses begins in each month because of the body's natural purgation. In some women, this flow occurs at the new moon novilunio the time of the new moon, and in others at different times: thus, not all women suffer this distress at the same time, because in that flow, all suffer differently, some