The vaginal reception of the pneuma may strike the 21st - century reader as strange .
Fumigation was a not uncommon gynecological regimen throughout the Hippocratic Corpus and was employed as early as 1900 -- 1500 BC in ancient Egyptian medicine .
Although the vaginal reception of the pneuma may strike the 21st - century reader as strange , fumigation was a not uncommon gynecological regimen throughout the Hippocratic Corpus and was employed as early as 1900 -- 1500 BC in ancient Egyptian medicine .