All women revealed their thoughts more readily to her than to any man, and told her their natures. — Placides and Timeus (image credit: John William Waterhouse) In the middle ages, people believed that women got sick to punish them for sorcery, that childbirth *should* be excruciatingly painful to remind women of Eve's biting the apple, and that women frequently "made up" pain or diseases to bewitch their husbands.
A Woman to Know: Trotula
A Woman to Know: Trotula
A Woman to Know: Trotula
All women revealed their thoughts more readily to her than to any man, and told her their natures. — Placides and Timeus (image credit: John William Waterhouse) In the middle ages, people believed that women got sick to punish them for sorcery, that childbirth *should* be excruciatingly painful to remind women of Eve's biting the apple, and that women frequently "made up" pain or diseases to bewitch their husbands.