Excerpt from The History of Ancient Gynaecology
The history of obstetrics has been written, in a manner to leave nothing to be desired, by Jacques de Siebold ;but neither the history of ancient gyn?cology nor even that of modern gyn?cology has yet been attempted.
I have in the following pages endeavoured to place before the reader all that can be culled from ancient authors on the subject of the diseases of women.
Beginning with the Papyrus Ebers, the oldest medical work extant on Egyptian medicine, I have gone through the works of the Hindu, the Greek, and the Roman writers down to the time of Paulus ?gineta, and I have abstracted, if not all the passages, at least all that are of importance and interest, on the subject of gyn?cology.
In dealing with each author, I have first given a sketch of his life and an account of his works, then a resume of his writings on gyn?cology, after which I have placed under the various headings all the facts concerning the diseases of women contained in the author's work.
When, however, I had completed my task, I felt that, if anyone wished to learn what the ancients knew about any individual subject connected with gyn?cology, it would take some time to ascertain the views of each author.
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