Duden 5: "What interests me is how women's flesh felt in earlier ages."
"Neither my grandmother, nor Queen Victoria, nor Hildegard of Bingen, nor any goddess of antiquity felt her flesh as I experience mine"
8: "[the] distant women I have tried to approach [...] report on an 'ebbing' and 'flowing' and 'curdling' and 'hardening' and, above all, on an interior orientation of their being that is mysterious today but which in their own time was immediately understandable, not only to other women, but also to the physician"