Skip to content

Mistaking histories

Thinking about medicine and the body in history

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Mistaking histories
  • About
  • Contact

Tag: vomiting

Bad History, menstruation

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

April 17, 2017August 9, 2017 fluff35

What did menstrual bleeding mean to the people of the past? And what expectations did that raise?

Tagged Aphorisms, blood, conception, ears, endometriosis, flesh, flowers, Galen, Hippocrates, menopause, pelvis, placenta, pollution, puberty, vicarious menstruation, vomiting, women1 Comment

Search

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Top Posts & Pages

  • Cleopatra and the vibrator powered by bees
  • The history of tampons - in ancient Greece?
  • The vulva goes on pilgrimage
  • Queen Victoria's cannabis habit: again
  • The history of cancer: Part 1
  • Talking about the book
  • What is this thing called lovesickness?
  • Hippocrates – and watercress?
  • Poisons and love potions
  • Vulvagate: why the words we use for our bodies matter

Blog Stats

  • 211,476 hits

What's it all about?

Bad History beards birth death diseases dissection doctors drugs food Galen gender God Hippocrates internet love medical instruments menstruation midwives museums and collections myth pregnancy religion remedies sex teaching Uncategorized virginity vulva womb

Recent Posts

  • What is a woman? ‘Common sense’ in history
  • ‘Just practising’? The history of Adam’s rib
  • Let’s talk about (assisted) dying
  • Talking about the book
  • Judging a book by its cover
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    Mistaking histories
    Join 180 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • Mistaking histories
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar