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Heating up and drying out
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- In pictures
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
| Julia Nurse
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.