Duden 107: "No body [in the eighteenth century] could have been descriptively grasped in its hidden interior as a universal and universally valid entity, for only the diversity of individual stories could be recorded. These stories resisted any attempt at generalization, since they appeared only as expereinced processes. The inside could be grasped only as the place of an experienced but invisible flowing. Thus the external flows were aids to understanding the inside. The doctor and the women interpreted them as signs of inner movements."
109: for these women (and their doctor) "all matter, though ultimately the same, is involved in constant transformations. [...] The inside was a porous place, a place of metamorphosis: fluids changed in the body, they transformed their materiality, form, color, consistency, and place of exit, and yet apparently they remained essentially alike."
see the material about "milk" on 108
123: "A mathematician to whom I read some of Storch's cases, summed up his impressions this way: these women experienced themselves as multidimensional vectors, as bundles of constantly shifting but directed forces"
"The permeable boundaries between the body and the environment served the fruitful metamorphosis in both directions"