WS100 Chapter Notes -Cervical Cap, Olive Oil, Calendar-Based Contraceptive Methods
26 Feb 2014
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The greek father of modern medicine hippocrates who lived from 460-377 bce believed that females lacked the male ability to sweat out impurities. The attitude, however that the female body is flawed has persisted to the present. As you will notice, the male body was always held as the perfect form (michangelo"s famous statue of david was meant to re-create this perfect form). Hippocrates also believed that the uterus wandered throughout the body and at times as high as the throat. He held the notion that the womb was particularly frantic when it was not weighted by semen, explaining the heightened anxiety in young virgins. Today we use pre-menstural syndrome as a way of accounting for women"s emotionalism . Six centuries later, another greek physician and philosopher, galen (129-203 c. e. ) dramatically influenced the way in which the human body was viewed.
