People have been writing about the diseases of women for as long as there has been medical writing. Nearly a fifth of the oldest collections of western medical texts since that attributed to Hippocrates are dedicated to the female body. Soranus of Ephesus, a renowned medical author who died prior to the birth of Galen (Fig. 1.1a, b), wrote his most important texts precisely on gynecology

A brief history of obstetric complications

Di Renzo, Gian Carlo;
2016

Abstract

People have been writing about the diseases of women for as long as there has been medical writing. Nearly a fifth of the oldest collections of western medical texts since that attributed to Hippocrates are dedicated to the female body. Soranus of Ephesus, a renowned medical author who died prior to the birth of Galen (Fig. 1.1a, b), wrote his most important texts precisely on gynecology
2016
9783319313757
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