'Aversion of eye contact':

a gynaecological examination

             
Turkish bath proprietors often emphasised in advertisements that the women's baths were under the supervision of female attendants.

One suggestion is that they  wished to stress that the therapeutic Turkish bath would be a comfortable experience; that women had no cause to fear the intrusions on their privacy suffered during visits to their male doctors.

< Jacques-Paul Maygrier, Nouvelles Demonstrations d'Accouchemens (Paris, 1822) in the Alderman Library and the William Moll Special Collections of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

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