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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly and library catalogs (including UNESCO Index Translationum, Internet Archive, and general library databases) yielded no record of an English translation for Johannes Itzstein's 1590 work 'Theses medicae de suppressione mensium'. Given the nature of this work as a 16th-century medical thesis, it is highly probable that no English translation exists.
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Johannes Itzstein offers a direct look at the 16th-century medical approach to the female body. This text reveals how physicians diagnosed and treated the suppression of menses through the lens of humorism and physical obstruction.