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Ancient Gynecology
---- What was one of the common contraceptive agents used for birth control? |
Silphium
Grew in Cyrene, North Africa Since Cyrene exported so much of the plant it became the city's official symbol: was on its coinage. |
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Ancient Gynecology
---- What other plants were used as contraceptive agents? |
pennyroyal
artemisia myrrh rue In Aristophanes’s comedy Peace, first performed in 421 BCE, Hermes provides Trigaius with a female companion. Trigaius wonders if the woman might become pregnant. “Not if you add a dose of pennyroyal,” advises Hermes. Pennyroyal grows in the wild and would have been readily available to ancient women. Recent studies show that pennyroyal contains a substance called pulegone that terminates pregnancy in humans and animals. |
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Ancient Gynecology
---- Caesarian Section Operation ---- - Where did the name derive from? - When was it allowed to be performed? |
- The Caesarean section operation did not derive its name from the fact that Julius Caesar was supposedly born in this manner. It was called Caesarean because the Roman, or Caesarean, law demanded that when a pregnant woman died, her body could not be buried until the child had been removed.
- The law also stipulated that a Caesarean section could not be performed on a living pregnant woman until the tenth month of gestation. |
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Ancient Gynecology
---- Caesarian Section Operation ---- - Was the operation used frequently? |
- Ancient physicians were unable to save the life of the mother in such cases, thus the procedure was rarely performed.
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Ancient Gynecology
---- Hysteria and the Wandering Womb ---- - The word "hysteria" derives from where? - What was thought to be the cause? |
- The word “hysteria” is derived from the Greek word hystera, “womb.”
- Greco-Roman medical writers believed that hysteria was caused by violent movements of the womb and that it was, therefore, peculiar to women. |
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Ancient Gynecology
---- Hysteria and the Wandering Womb ---- - What did ancient medical physicians believe about a woman's womb? |
- As early as the sixth century BCE, medical writers believed that the womb was not a stationary object, but one that traveled throughout the body, often to the detriment of the woman’s health.
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What is the Alexamenos graffito?
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The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo[1]) is an inscription carved in plaster on a wall near the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is generally thought to be the earliest known pictorial representation of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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