Fantastically Wrong: The Theory of the Wandering Wombs That Drove Women to Madness

Greek physicians were positively obsessed with the womb. For them, it was the key to explaining why women were so different from men, both physically and mentally. For Hippocrates and his followers, these differences could all be explained by a “wandering womb.”

















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