A History of Women in Medicine from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century |
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CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
An Iberian Queen from Elche Spain 4th Century B C Frontispiece | 8 |
A Sumerian Priestess Physician About 4000 B C | 20 |
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