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In 1690 Daniel Schrön, a German physician, described a patient with “ulcers” throughout her peritoneum, bladder, intestines, uterus and cervix. It was long thought to be the first documented appearance in medical literature of endometriosis, a painful and debilitating gynecological condition that today affects as many as 190m women worldwide. PREMIUM Medicine (Shutterstock/Representational image) {{^userSubscribed}} […]