Advice given to Phaedra by her nurse:—
If thou hast some ailment which thou dost not care to reveal to men, here are women who are competent to treat the condition properly.
(Euripides.)
Sleep is the physician of pain,
and
Death is the supreme healer of maladies.
(Sophocles, 495–406 B. C.)
In Plato’s writings there are to be found a few passages in which this philosopher gives his views in regard to certain matters that are not without interest to modern physicians. The following extracts are of this nature:—
There is not then, my friend, any office among the whole inhabitants of the city peculiar to the woman, considered as a woman, nor to the man, considered as a man; but the geniuses are indiscriminately diffused through both: the woman is naturally fitted for sharing in all offices, and so is the man; but in all the woman is weaker than the man.
Perfectly so.