beginning of medicine women gathered herbs make remedies

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beginning of medicinewomengatheredherbsmaker
emedies
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theybathed arthriticlooked afterpregnant
womendelivered babies
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classical Egypt women physiciansin medical
schoolsAgamede skilledmedicine and herbal
lorein classical Greecewomen physiciansnumerous
in Roman times
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seventh centurymen prominencemedicineinvention
obstetric forcepsled male monopolyguilds did
not favor womenwomen not access
universitiesbarred medical trainingfemale
herbalists and burnedto death as witches
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mid-nineteenth centurywomen admitted medical
schoolsElizabeth Blackwell graduatedWomens
Medical College ofPhiladelphia foundedfirst
Canadian physician Emily Jenningsfew women until
after 1945due to social factors and bias in
selectiontoday in western societiesequal access
to schoolsnot equality in opportunity within
branches medicine