See Appendix A.
Bland Sutton, loc. cit., p. 896.
See H. Ellis, Man and Woman, Chapter XI.
This is by no means true of European women only. Thus, we read in an Arabic book, The Perfumed Garden, that women have an aversion to coitus during menstruation. On the other hand, the old Hindoo physician, Susruta, appears to have stated that a tendency to run after men is one of the signs of menstruation.