The treatment of women necessitated the use of both as their health was supervised by themselves, their family and close community. Duden's book draws together two different medical concepts: traditional and the growing medical and scholarly. It is important to note that often there were no physical examinations, but rather self diagnoses and the doctor prescribing based on testimony either read through a message or heard in person. That said, the read was colloquial and it helped make sense of a developing understanding of a woman's body as seen through the lens of a doctor who treated them. It could also have to do with the fact that the historian is German and it is inevitable for other countries vocabulary and means of explaining concepts get lost in the translation to another language and means of studying and writing history. Possibly because of issues of translation, I found this volume hard to follow.
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