Gynecology and Pregnancy
The writers of the Hippocratic Corpus separated the Diseases of Women from the rest of the Corpus. There were also a number of influential Hippocratic treatises: Sterile Women; On the Nature of Women; Superfetation (the conception of a second fetus while already pregnant); Excision of the Fetus (on complications during delivery); On the Diseases of Young Girls (illnesses believed to be caused by delayed marriage); and other treatises covering the development of the fetus at different stages of gestation.
Read more about this topic: Childbirth And Obstetrics In Antiquity
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“There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)