Tag: Doctor Rabelais Part IV: Rabelais on women and doctors
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Doctor Rabelais Part IV: Rabelais on women and doctors
“When I speak of women,” said the doctor, “I speak of a sex so fragile, so variable, so changeable, so inconstant, and so imperfect . . . that Plato, you will recall, was at a loss where to class them. . . . For nature has placed in their bodies . . . certain humors,…