Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c21.12

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c21.12

(*i*) The menses continue for seventeen days during which the woman may be impregnated, and not at any other season. This Hindu idea of absolute sterility after a certain number of days is still held by some modern physiologists, though not a demonstrated truth.

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