Wellcome MS 49, fol. 38r

The disease woman in this 15th-century manuscript is drawn alongside several other obstetrical and gynaecological images. While the foetus is not depicted here, as it is in other images of the disease woman, the artist has written embrio in her womb to show that she is indeed pregnant. 
 
The positioning of her body is similar to the five-man set described in the first unit. As Rachel Wertheim observes, '...the ‘disease woman’ of MS. 49 stares directly out at the viewer, oblivious to her body’s subjection to the rigours of anatomical dissection. Squatting with arms raised and legs bent, the woman appears completely naked with only the exception of a cloth headdress, which was traditionally associated with married women and nuns. Her head and limbs remain undissected, while her chest and abdomen are opened to reveal a simplified rendering of Galenic anatomy.'

For more on the disease woman, see Wertheim's blog post in 'external links'. 
 
 

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