Download or read book Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England written by S. Read and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.