title: [Women's blood].
abstract: In ancient medicine feminine blood is a complex notion, regarding physical pollution and moral impurity, the necessity of purifying a body otherwise full of residual matter an 'hydraulic' physiology, the 'crafting' of the child and children's diseases and deformities.
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Storia della Medicina, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Patologia, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, I.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gazzaniga
mesh_terms: D001790:Blood Physiological Phenomena; D005260:Female; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans