Valentina Gazzaniga
Section of History of Medicine Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, I
Keywords:
blood , ancient History, Greek and Roman Medicine, Menstruation, Pregnancy , Pollution
Abstract
In ancient medicine feminine blood is a complex notion, regarding physical pollution and moral impurity, the necessity of purifying a body, otherwise full of residual matter, an "hydraulic" physiology, the "crafting" of the child and children's diseases and deformities.
