Duden 17: "the traditional body had to 'flow': pus, blood, and sweat had be be drawn out. On this point peasants, women, and practicing doctors agreed. The new philanthropist saw a completely different reality: a body that should be preserved, improved, and must not dissipate itself--an economic unit."
a conflict between "traditional medicine, whic constantly assisted the body in its self-opening, and [a] new medicine"
> from Barbara Duden's The Women Beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)
> tagged with #body, #health, #medicine
> created March 28, 2026 at 9:42:03 AM
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