59 Only a woman could write these sublime words: ‘Ah, sans doute que dans les mystères de notre nature aimer, encore aimer est ce qui nous est resté de notre héritage céleste’ – Mme de Staël [Author]. Undoubtedly among the mysteries of our nature, to love and love again is that which has remained of our heavenly legacy [Editor]. 60 The whole woman is her womb. Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1579–1644) was a Flemish chemist and physician, the first who realized the presence of gases other than air and who is credited with the coinage of the word ‘gas’ itself. He is renowned for having taken the melting point of ice