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Headword:
*loxai=oi
di/froi
Adler number: lambda,707
Translated headword: birthing chairs, birthing stools
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Women use them in recent times for childbirth.
Greek Original:*loxai=oi di/froi: oi(=s pro\s to\ tekei=n o)ye\ xrw=ntai ai( gunai=kes.
Note:
From a gloss (on the headword phrase) in
Artemidorus 5.73 -- but it appears there without "in recent times" (
o)ye/). The medical writer
Soranus of
Ephesus describes such chairs or stools without suggesting that they were novel in his time (mid/late C2 CE).
R. Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1990) 72-3.
Keywords: children; chronology; daily life; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 September 2001@06:26:42.
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