By Dr. Amy Kenny When prescribing curatives for a wandering womb, early modern medical practitioners regularly propose pungent materials to return the womb to its rightful place in the abdomen. Medical manuals from the period are rife with tales of the womb becoming dislodged and wandering throughout the body. Monthly shedding and regular intercourse were often recommended for women to release gratuitous female seed and prevent humoral clogging. Without shedding this excess, the womb could travel throughout the body, sometimes as far north as … Continue reading Returning the wandering womb with “fetid and rank smells”
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