This chapter begins with a discussion of the figurine identified by Audrey Meaney as the Broadstairs Woman, now located in the British Museum. It then discusses the ways in which maternal bodies are often absent in genealogies, despite their biological necessity. It turns to a discussion of the universal male body in medical research, and the ways in which Old English medical texts treat the male body as the default body. This default function is visible too in the word mann, which may mean person, but implies the notion of man as ideal person. The lack of discussion of women’s medicine generally, and menopause specifically, reveals the kinds of gaps that are present in the medical tradition of the Middle Ages, but also the lack of research resources for women’s medicine in the current moment.