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The workplace of a female healer (midwife and surgeon), with signboard, from outside. Reproduction of wood engraving after H. Daumier, 1841.

An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

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.

The daughters of Hariti : childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.

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.

Women healers through history / Elisabeth Brooke.

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The daughters of Hariti : childbirth and female healers in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel.

An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

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.

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.

Women healers through history / Elisabeth Brooke.