Comparison with BL ms Ashmole 399

[ReneZ]

Hey, this was my answer in the "State of the Voynich 2016" thread concerning the topic of quire 13: "Bathing, maybe with a focus on women's reproductive health." I want priority!

Are you sure?

Another (possibly) young woman wrote the following, 40 years ago:

It seems strange to me, also, that so many students have become obsessively preoccupied with gynecological or sexual interpretations of the text.

(D'Imperio, p.36).

Of the "so many" she quotes one, the work of Leonell Strong represented in the analysis of Betty McCaig:

Strong's efforts produced text representing "an extremely candid discussion of woman's ailments and practical matters of the conjugal bed - you might call it a sixteenth century equivalent of the Kinsey Report". He identified an herbal contraceptive among its recipes, and ran a laboratory experiment to test the effectiveness of the prescription for that purpose."