[148] According to _J. P. Schotte_, Von einem ansteckenden, schwarzgallichten Faulfieber, welches im Jahr 1778 in Senegall herrschte, (Account of a Contagious, black biliary, putrid Fever, prevalent in Senegal in the Year 1778), from the English (Stendal) 1786. 8vo., p. 103., both men and women in Senegal get ulcers, quite without any syphilitic contagion, in the one sex on the _glans penis_ or the under side of the prepuce, in the other on the inner side of the _labia_. [149] _Virey_, De la Femme, 2nd. edition, Brussels 1826., p. 70., En effet, dans la chaleur, lorsque les excrétions de la peau, des glandes sébacées, des cryptes du vagin, augmentent en abondance et en fétidité, il n’est pas étonnant que le sang menstruel, pour peu qu’il séjourne en ces parties voisines de l’anus, qui sont dans un état d’orgasme, acquière bientôt de l’odeur. (Indeed in a hot climate, when the secretions from the skin, from the sebaceous glands, from the recesses of the vagina, increase in abundance and in foulness, it is not surprising that the menstrual blood, remaining for a time as it does in the regions contiguous to the anus, these regions being in a state of sur-excitation, quickly acquires an evil smell). So _Haller_ too says (Elem. Physiolog. Vol. VII. pt. II. p. 146.), _Ex Asia videtur opinio de menstrui sanguinis foetida et venenata natura ad nos pervenisse_, et per medicos potissimum Arabes ad Europaeos transiisse. In calidissimis certe regionibus, si ad aestuosum aerem immundities accesserit, non repugnat, sanguinem in loco calente, in vicinia faecum alvinarum retentum, acrem fieri et foetire.... _Lentorem aliquem possit mucus admistus addidisse._ (_It is from Asia that the opinion as to the fetid and poisonous character of menstrual blood would seem to have come to us_, being transmitted mainly by the Arab physicians to those of Europe. No doubt in very hot climates, if dirty habits be added to the extreme heat of the atmosphere, there is nothing at all unlikely in the blood, retained as it is in a hot locality, in close proximity to the faeces in the bowels, growing sour and smelling foul.... _A certain viscous quality may very well have been added by the admixture of mucous discharge_). What has been observed as to the injuriousness of menstrual blood by our predecessors since _Pliny_ (Hist. Nat. VII. 15. XIX. 10. XXVIII. 7.) may be found partially collected in _Schurig_, Parthenologia 227-240. Comp. _Frank de Frankenau_, Satyrae Medicae (Medical Satires), p. 89. Comp. pp. 54. sqq.—_Hensler_, Geschichte der Lustseuche, (History of Venereal Disease), Vol. I. pp. 204. sqq., where it is demonstrated that a great proportion of the Writers on Venereal disease at the beginning of the XVIth. Century attribute its rise to intercourse with women during menstruation.