A study of cultural representations of women patients as recorded in the case records of Johann Storch (1681-1751), a physician who lived and worked in the town of Eisenach, Germany during the first half of the 18th century, including the medical histories of approximately 1800 women of all ages and social stations, often in their own words. Translated into English by Thomas Dunlap as The woman beneath the skin: A doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991