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Excerpt from A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
And we are faced with more than documentary mistakes. With iwoi''nen far more than with men tradition has been prone to garble and distort the original data. But this very fact increases the reliability of those stories of the work of medical women which have persisted down the ages, surviving jealousy, calumny, carelessness and indifference. If _any traditions of medical women survived all these handicaps, it is all the more probable that they were based on solid and substantial fact.
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And we are faced with more than documentary mistakes. With iwoi''nen far more than with men tradition has been prone to garble and distort the original data. But this very fact increases the reliability of those stories of the work of medical women which have persisted down the ages, surviving jealousy, calumny, carelessness and indifference. If _any traditions of medical women survived all these handicaps, it is all the more probable that they were based on solid and substantial fact.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331487435
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm
Page Count - 657
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780260857798
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm
Page Count - 659
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