History of Science 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Laxative, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Celery
28 Dec 2018
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As a result, women were wetter and hotter than men. In order to become softer and better counteract the hardness of the mouth of the womb. Ingredients of her pine branch drink, and foods to be boiled. Wine she must drink must be sweet and pleasant. Food she eats must be softening or loosening faculties. Meat of puppies is moistening, laxative and diuretic. Red wine: believed to have strengthening qualities. Fertility and sex: the symbolism attached to some ingredients of the. The hippocratic gynaecological compilers believed that women absorbed more fluid from their diet than men because of their spongy flesh. Diseases of women were due to an incapacity to process fluids resulting from their diet (phlegm, bile, blood) Diseases as imbalances of the qualities of the body (wet and dry; hot and cold; soft and hard), which have to be treated by means of opposites.
