Beliefs About Formation Of Sex In Medical Sources Of Xix–Early Xx Century And Folk Tradition

DOI: http://doi.org/10.33876/2224-9680/2019-1-17/10

Abstract

The article reviews magical-mystical and traditional religious beliefs about reproductive processes in female organism, that influenced scientific medical knowledge in XIX–XX centuries Russia. Studied are views of specialists of that era on the formation of the future child’s sex.

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