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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, health, and medicine in America : a historical handbook / edited by Rima D. Apple.

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Women healers

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Images about Women healers

Works from the collections

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.

Women, health, and medicine in America : a historical handbook / edited by Rima D. Apple.

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

Images from the collections

Images about Women healers

Works from the collections

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.

Women, health, and medicine in America : a historical handbook / edited by Rima D. Apple.

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.

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