{"paper_id":"17188fb8-4f95-4df4-8534-83874d3851df","body_text":"Abstract\nEver since Vincent Knapp published his 1999 article “How old is Endometriosis?” [1], there seems to have been renewed interest in identifying just when endometriosis was discovered as a distinct disease entity.\nThe authors have nothing to disclose.\nPresented as a keynote speech at the World Symposium on Endometriosis, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22–25, 2011.\nAccess this chapter\nTax calculation will be finalised at checkout\nPurchases are for personal use only\nSimilar content being viewed by others\nReferences\nKnapp VJ. How old is endometriosis? Late 17th- and 18th-century European descriptions of the disease. Fertil Steril. 1999;72:10–4.\nGiudice L. Managing symptomatic endometriosis. Sex Reprod Menopause. 2011;9(Suppl):S31–3.\nMacKinney LC, Bober H. A thirteenth-century medical case history in miniatures. Speculum. 1960;35:251–9.\nKing H. Hippocrates’ woman: reading the female body in ancient Greece. 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J Cell Physiol. 2012;227:1653–6.\nAcknowledgments\nThe authors thank Barbara Page for her tremendous dedication and assistance to this project; Janet Pitts and Crystal Smith, research associates at the National Library of Medicine, for their help in locating a copy of the Daniel Schrön manuscript; Drew Bourn of Lane Library at Stanford University for helping us uncover obscure nineteenth-century works; and J. P. T. Quintus who provided the expert translations from Latin. And finally, we would like to dedicate this research to our mother and to all women who suffer from endometriosis.\nAuthor information\nAuthors and Affiliations\nCorresponding author\nEditor information\nEditors and Affiliations\nRights and permissions\nCopyright information\n© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nAbout this chapter\nCite this chapter\nNezhat, C., Nezhat, F., Nezhat, C.H. (2020). Endometriosis: Ancient Disease, Ancient Treatments. In: Nezhat, C.H. (eds) Endometriosis in Adolescents. 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