The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
1
Nitro-Muriatic Acid.-AquaRegia is a compound menstruum invented by the alchemists for dissolving gold.
2
These colloids appear to be separated by amyl alcohol in virtue of their greater solubility in that menstruum.
3
Impure spirits of 40° Gay-Lussac, and not water, should be used as a menstruum for the salt of copper.
4
The aromatics and bitter tonics are useful; gentian and tea in warm decoction form a useful menstruum for other remedies.
5
But it is time to carry out the last step, which is to place them in a very different menstruum, altogether more reactive.
6
Water is necessary, not only for digestion, nutrition, and all functional processes of life, but it is indispensable as a menstruum for medicinal substances.
7
When hard-boiled white of egg is kept in warm water, it absorbs a considerable quantity of that menstruum, as much as several units per cent.
8
Nothing but the sharpest essence of villany, compounded with the strongest distillation of folly, could have produced a menstruum that would have effected a separation.
9
"The menstruum of a human female," he announced, "only a few minutes old!"