Connolly: I think there’s not a ton of information on what are all the books they banned, but we do know that they were just pretty strict in general. There was an environment of suppression.

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This also fits Ms Vallejo’s agenda. She strives mightily to excavate hidden women, who were not supposed to have any role in the earliest history of books—or, indeed, of speaking.

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The books also reveal what kinds of health information filtered from official sources into the everyday lives of families. But as much as the collection is about medicine, it is also about culture.