Topic > Gender and Gender Equality in the Ancient World

According to the Hippocratic text described by King (1998), he believed that menstrual blood was an indication that a woman was suffering from an illness and would be at risk of becoming anemic at any case, and also sees them as very sick and weak. In Hippocratic gynecology it was stated that being a woman means having menstruation, as the Egyptians thought that menstruation is normal and