Stories
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
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.
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Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
![[June 1992 Potter's Herbal Supplies newsletter (special new catalogue mailing) advertising Boldo tablets (slimming aid), Granny Ann Biscuits (for constipation) and Wellwoman Tablets for menopause].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28515675_0002.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[June 1992 Potter's Herbal Supplies newsletter (special new catalogue mailing) advertising Boldo tablets (slimming aid), Granny Ann Biscuits (for constipation) and Wellwoman Tablets for menopause].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28515675_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Menopause / Miriam Stoppard.
Stoppard, Miriam.Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Menopause Clinic
Date: 1979-1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/H/4/3/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Menopause Course
Date: 1984-1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/H/4/8/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
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Menopause
Date: 1927-1960sReference: SA/MWF/B.4/6Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
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Menopause
Date: c.1960s-1970sReference: PP/RJH/C.10/4Part of: Hetherington, Robert J
