It is NOT our fault
Eleanor was twenty-four when she stopped menstruating.
The midwife said she needed a “cleansing,” done at home, roughly, using a metal instrument and hot water. It was supposed to restore balance, to “reset” her womb.
Instead, the bleeding stopped completely.
Months passed, and her menses did not come again. With fear, she mentioned it to her husband. He went to the bar to talk with his friends about it.
Soon the rumors spread: that she had sinned. The husband, under pressure, went to the magistrate. He said his wife had changed after the birth — that her body was cold, that she had refused him. There was no trial, just a statement and a verdict.
They called it infidelity. She was hanged three days later in front of the church. The official record said “moral corruption.” No one protested.
Two days after the execution, a traveling physician arrived in town. He asked to examine her body. They allowed it, thinking he would confirm their suspicions.
The report he left described a uterus “small, whitish, its inner walls united by thin fibrous cords.” What we now call Asherman’s Syndrome — scarring of the endometrium after trauma, infection, or curettage, which causes fibrous tissue that hinders or prevents bleeding during menstruation.
It appears her only sin was to trust her husband.
When the magistrate read the description, he looked at the husband and said quietly, “Well… it wasn’t all our fault, right?”
PD: Chat GPT is getting better with the pictures
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