
Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history
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What Do They Tell Us About Theories About Fertility?
Fertility was really important. Every about midwifery deals with barrenness, what we call infertility. I'm something like a third of all cases doctors don't really have a good answer for. So if wee are going to look at these sources, what do they tell us about theories about fertility at the time? That's a great way of asking that question.
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