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Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history

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How Women Deal With Their Periods?

Women are naturally colder and wetter than men, according to humorale theory. They digests their food less completely than do men because they cook a little hotter. So for women, there's more left over which is called plethera - excess. And so that excess has to come out of the body or it'll kind of stagnate in there and do bad things. When you're pregnant, that plethera instead feeds the foetus. Then afterwards it can also sort of blood can turn into breast milk. Women didn't wear underwear as we know it but I've always assumed it's some combination of straps and natural materials like hay and straw fabrics expensive. There's fabric in

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