Some of you sharp-eyed eager beavers spotted something unexpected in these 17th century illustrations: a couple of what appeared to be clitorises floating around next to it. But if detailed anatomical studies of the internal clitoris weren't published until the 1990s, what are clits doing in a 17th century textbook?
The answer often given to this question is "suppression of knowledge" but the full story is a bit more complicated than that... https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/110396396129094151