it into a fetus (Hippocrates, Genit. 5; Nat. puer. 12).15 A woman’s body is simply one huge gland, and the function of glands is to absorb (Hippocrates, Gland. 3).16 The author of Glands writes: In women the substance of the glands is very rarefied [ἀραιή-loose textured], just like the rest of their bodies.… The male is close-pressed like a thick carpet both in appearance and to the touch. The female, on the other hand, is rarefied [ἀραιόν-loose textured] and porous [χαῦνον] like a flock of