✍ Scribed by Nathan E. Liskey
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THE RHYTHMIC cycle that each woman experiences during her childbearing years is as complex as woman herself. It has been suggested that more than 90 per cent of the 40--45 million American females in their reproductive years are affected unfavourably by their menstrual cycles. The exact reason for this discomfort or irritation to the female during particular times of the cycle is not understood completely. Nevertheless, a large number of females do experience some degree of discomfort just prior to the onset of menstruation which usually abates during or towards the end of menstruation.
This problem is not recent, for the Greeks recorded the fact that calm and self-possessed women sometimes became highly irritable and extremely high-strung just prior to the commencing of menstruation. Despite the awareness of the Greeks, these changes have not only been mysterious at times, but have also brought forth a multitude of falsehoods concerning these changes. Until 1876, no published clinical or experimental research concerning the menstrual cycle had appeared. Jacobi (1877) won the Boylston Prize for "The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation" in which she made several recommendations for females to rest between periods of physical exercise either in sport or industrial work. For that time it was a significant contribution in the area of menstruation and its related effects. Since the turn of the century, scientists have investigated the female menstrual cycle from many viewpoints varying from cyclic temperature changes, heart rate, blood pressure, weight gain, muscular strength and efficiency to the ebb and flow of the tides.
Frank (1931) coined the term "premenstrual tension", based upon his observations and medical records. His description of this phenomenon including tightness, stiffness of hands and slight gain in weight among other things. Other researchers noted transient emotional instability, breast pain, lower abdominal pain and bloating, increase in appetite and weight gaining for some females.
Whitehead (1934) brought to surface the possibility of menstruation as a factor in accident causation. In airplane accidents involving females as pilots, it was found that certain pilots were in their menstrual periods when no other cause for the accident could be determined. Dalton (1960a) presented data concerning the classwork and menstruation relationship in which it was shown that female school girls had a drop in weekly marks during the pre-menstrum followed by a rise after menstruation. Not only did they have a drop in marks, but they were more forgetful and less punctual than usual.
Crime has long been a social problem for most cultures and continues to be so. In a 1945 study by Cooke* concerning unpremeditated crimes of passion and violence by women in Paris, it was revealed that 84 per cent were committed during their premenstrual and * Cited by Peters (1961).
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