The name of ‘Hippocrates’ is still being used to sell products – alternative medicine, weird diets, and ... watercress?
Tag: gynaecology
The history of menstruation
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Hypatia Everything has a history: even menstruation. I managed to write an 80,000 word doctoral thesis on menstruation in classical Greece, which just goes to show that there's a story to be told there! I've shared a few of the weirder beliefs here. One of the questions I couldn’t answer in… Continue reading The history of menstruation
Mistaking histories 