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Bull New York Acad Medicine ser 2 51
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Bull New York Acad Medicine ser 2 51
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Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
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51
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1975
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ser 2
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Date Of Issue From: 1975
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BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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05 Dec 2008
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Abstract
Ancient obstetric hazards and female mortality
Calvin Wells
1235 - 1249
The undoubted fact that women in ancient times had a shorter life expectancy than men is usually attributed to high mortality in childbed, but this view seems to stem from 19th-century medical preoccupations and to be unrelated to conditions in primitive communities. Very few puerperal deaths are convincingly attested, and the average number of children per woman in early Europe is four to five. However, the high incidence of malnutritional defects among females strongly suggests that males were allowed the best food and were thus more resistant to disease and stress than the females.