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  Benedict's sister, St. Scholastica and the Benedictine women did an exemplary job in running those hospitals, too.  
  
  In addition to Jerome and Aquinas, there were others---who had these  ideas about women:  Tertulian, Origen and others.  Here is a comment by Galen [c. 217], a medical theorist, on the physical make-up of women:
  "So too the woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts.  For the parts were formed within her when she was still a fetus, but could not [develop] because of the defect in the heat emerge and project on the outside, and this, though making the animal itself that was being formed less perfect than one that is complete in all respects, provided no small advantage for the race; for there needs must be female.  Indeed, you ought not to think our creator would purposely make half the whole race imperfect and, as it were, mutilated, unless there was to be some great advantage to such a mutilation."