Thursday, February 28, 2019

A study of 17th-century midwifery manuals.


The Morning News https://ift.tt/2GOVvq3

“The most popular of [barrenness] remedies was for the husband to urinate through his wife’s wedding ring without letting a drop run outside of it,” Glover writes. Another involved the husband drinking water that had been dropped from a horse’s mouth.

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