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For other instances of peculiar forms of suicide reference may be made to numerous volumes on this subject, prominent among which is that by Brierre de Boismont, which, though somewhat old, has always been found trustworthy, and also to the chapters on this subject written by various authors on medical jurisprudence. Religious and Ceremonial Mutilations.

Brierre de Boismont and Meisner describe a case apparently identical with the foregoing, though not quoting the source. Haller, in a collection of physiologic curiosities covering a period of a century and a half, cites 18 instances of menstruation from the skin. Parrot has also mentioned several cases of this nature.

Emmet cites an instance of menstruation at seventy, and Brierre de Boismont one of a woman who menstruated regularly from her twenty-fourth year to the time of her death at ninety-two.

Who was she? who was her Julien? ... When the Estelle and many other vessels had discharged their ghastly cargoes; when the bereaved of the land had assembled as hastily as they might for the du y of identification; when memories were strained almost to madness in research of names, dates, incidents for the evocation of dead words, resurrection of vanished days, recollection of dear promises, then, in the confusion, it was believed and declared that the little corpse found on the pelican island was the daughter of the wearer of the wedding ring: Adele La Brierre, nee Florane, wife of Dr.

Julien La Brierre, of New Orleans, who was numbered among the missing. And they brought dead Adele back, up shadowy river windings, over linked brightnesses of lake and lakelet, through many a green glimmering bayou, to the Creole city, and laid her to rest somewhere in the old Saint-Louis Cemetery. And upon the tablet recording her name were also graven the words Aussi a la memoire de son mari;

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