Just what through the centuries have women known about how to regulate fertility by various herbs. According to historian John Riddle, around the 15th century the new intellectual, religious and legal climate forced such knowledge underground. Persecuted as "witchcraft" then and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, Riddle reveals that the control of fertility by "Eve's herbs" actually has been practiced by women since the most ancient of times.
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Just what through the centuries have women known about how to regulate fertility by various herbs. According to historian John Riddle, around the 15th century the new intellectual, religious and legal climate forced such knowledge underground. Persecuted as "witchcraft" then and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, Riddle reveals that the control of fertility by "Eve's herbs" actually has been practiced by women since the most ancient of times.
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Very Good. No dustjacket. pp. 341, "In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women… 8vo.
