From a damnation to an illness: that thought about monthly in the past — and as with them coped

Though the subject monthly still is considered one of the most tabooed (probably, and this article will surprise our some readers), myths and stereotypes round it gradually vanish. At least — in comparison with the last centuries. How then people perceived periods? What was hygiene? Of what "accused" a menopause? We learn with help books "Unattractive history. As lived, loved and were ill during different eras" (publishing house "Bombora")...