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Women healers
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The daughters of Hariti : childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.
Date: 2002
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An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: [1800?]Reference: 645283i- Pictures
An old woman and a nun trying to treat a swelling on a child's face by pressing it in. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1838.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Date: [1838]Reference: 2851799iPart of: Croquis d'expressions- Books
Women, health, and medicine in America : a historical handbook / edited by Rima D. Apple.
Date: 1990
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A pregnant woman receives an abortifacient draught from a peasant "wise woman"; she falls ill but the physician cannot save her life; her funeral is attended by her family and neighbours. Colour lithograph by S. I︠a︡guzhinskiĭ, 1925.
I︠A︡guzhinskiĭ, S.Date: [1925?]Reference: 668010i