HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Albertus Magnus, Menstrual Cycle, Stout
18 Dec 2018
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People usually men are on record claiming a number of rather dubious things: pliny the elder, pseudo-albertus magnus. It would indeed be a difficult matter to find anything which is productive of more marvellous effects than the menstrual discharge (natural history, book. [h]ailstorms, they say, whirlwinds, and lightning even, will be scared away by a woman uncovering her body while her monthly courses are upon her (natural. [s]eeds which are touched by her become sterile, grafts wither away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit will fall from the tree beneath which she sits. You can tell when women have their menstrual periods because they normally wear many veils on their heads at this time. The reason for this is that they have headaches menstruating women are also somewhat sluggish and do not enjoy sexual intercourse and similar things (ibid. , p. 130: hysteria and menstrual madness.
