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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical Perspective
- The Egyptian ancient belief honored menstrual blood as a life-giving nature. The Mesopotamian mother goddess, named Ninhursag, believed to create mankind from loam and her "blood of life".[1]
- The first descriptions about disturbances in menstrual cycle are found in Papyrus Ebres [named after the Egyptologist Georg M. Ebers (1837-1898)], from New Kingdom period (1450-1550 B.C.E). They described the patients as a "women who suffers from the side of her pubic region as an irregularity of her menstruation".[2]
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- In Papyrus Edwin Smith [named for an American antiques dealer (1822-1906)], from 2900 B.C.E, first definition of amenorhea presented as "woman suffering in her abdomen, so that the menstrual discharge can not leave her". There are also herbal treatments suggestions for this condition in the Papyrus.[4]
- The term amenorrhea is derived from Greek language [a = negative, men = month, rhoia = flow]. The opposite is the normal menstrual period.
- Historically, the term amenorrhea has often been used as a euphemism for "unwanted pregnancy" and many folk treatments for this condition were in fact abortifacients.
References
- ↑ "Menstruation in ancient Egypt, by Petra Habiger, at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health".
- ↑ Sigerist, Henry (1951). A history of medicine. New York: Oxford. ISBN 9780195001020.
- ↑ "Reorganized text". JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 141 (5): 428. 2015. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2015.0540. PMID 25996397.
- ↑ Breasted, James (1930). The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus, published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary in two volumes. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago, Oriental Institute. ISBN 0-918986-73-7.