a: womb ~
b: an animal within an animal
What:
"In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscous, closely resembling an animal; for it moves itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax, and also obliquely to the right or to the left, either to the liver or the spleen; and it likewise is subject to prolapsus downwards, and, in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights, also, in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it had an aversian to fetid smells and flees from them; and, on the whole the womb is like an animal within an animal."
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Writer: Galen
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Date: Mar 2 2014 6:45 PM
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