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Friday, March 8, 2019

To Conceive a Girl in Ancient Greece, Eat a Salad and Tie Your Right Testicle

Greek women had it tough. At any moment, their wombs could dislodge and wander through their bodies, strangling them—or so said Hippocratic doctors. Their medical texts, which emerged in the fifth cen...


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