Since almost all the older men were needed to serve in the battle of the actual war. Women had to begin taking some of the men's old jobs. Also, some served to help with the wars distribution of weapons, medicines, clothes, and food. Women weren't just at home like usually they actually had to begin working.
René Descartes was a French philosopher who attributed that bodily movements and motions were propelled by tiny animal spirits.
Descartes says that these animal spirits travel throughout our bodies in the circulatory system and passes through the brain and heart, where the animal spirits signal the nerves to move our bodies.
According to Descartes, these animal spirits are the finest particles in the blood and through the principle of passion, these participles propels the movements of the spirits and heart.