Hello my lovely betwixters how are you doing it's been ages hasn't it?

or it's not been exactly ages but I've missed you it's me Kate Lister and you are

listening to betwixt the sheets but before we can keep going with this

you know what's coming that's right it's the fair dues warning this is an adult

podcast broken by adults to other adults about adulty things in an adult way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.

I feel safer, you feel safer, we all feel safer, on with the show.

Well, hello, betwixters, I am just browsing through some ancient Greek medical texts, or scrolls as one does.

That's just how we like to roll here on betwixt.

And you know what, it is fascinating. I have learned so much about my own body.

I simply have no idea. Let us flick to a random page to see what we can find out.

Hmm, it does seem to be that anything that could possibly go wrong with a woman is about her womb.

Frozen shoulder, that's a womb. Ingrowing toenail, that's a womb.

Particularly itchy rash. Woom, womb, womb. and this is because of an ancient medical belief in the

wandering womb that's right Greek doctors actually believed that the womb could

upsticks and just wander around the body,

blocking up other organs, messing stuff up, throwing things out of whack and just generally causing

chaos. The tricky things, wounds. And it wasn't just the medical authorities who believed

this, Plato thought it too. He seems to have been better at philosophy than gynecology.

I think perhaps you should just stay in his lane, but he had a go at it as well.

So here's a question. If your womb is wandering around your body causing mayhem,

how would you get it back to where it should be?

Well, one solution was to squat over something that smelled terrible,

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