Mary Trye
Mary Trye was a woman who practiced medicine in Warwickshire, England and the city of London.[1] In 1675, she published Medicatrix, Or The Woman-Physician,a defense of her father, Charles O'Dowde. Though not much is known about Trye or her life, in Medicatrix she asserted her right to write and publish.[2] She defended the practice of iatrochemistry as opposed to the Galenic approach supported by the official Royal College of Physicians.
References[]
- ^ Cook, Harold J. (23 September 2004). ""Mary Trye"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45830.
- ^ Trye, Mary (1675). Medicatrix, Or, The Woman-Physician. London: Printed By T.R. and N.T. and sold by Henry Broome. pp. A2.
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