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Chapters
• Witchcraft and Medicine in the Middle Ages
• The Witch Craze
• The Crimes of Witches
• Witches as Healers
• The Rise of the European Medical Profession
• The Suppression of Women Healers
• The Aftermath
• Women and the Rise of the American Medical Profession
• Enter the Doctor
• The Popular Health Movement
• Doctors on the Offensive
• Professional Victory
• Outlawing the Midwives
• The Lady with the Lamp
• The Doctor Needs a Nurse

Illustrations
• Witch healing peasants
• The witch craze)
• Three witches hanging, from the title page of a contemporary pamphlet on the third
• Chelmsford witch trial, 1589
• Statue of woman with stomach open)
• Devil seducing a witch
• Witches and demons dancing in a ring
• Witch preparing a potion
• The humors: sanguine, melancholy, hot-tempered, sluggish
• The benefits of bleeding
• Woman treating dislocated jaw
• The lady as a physician
• Doctor delivering under a sheet, for modesty's sake
• Regular" doctors try water treatment
• Gynecological exam
• Professional women/women at work)
• The coming race (cartoon)
• Doctor and Doctoress (cartoon)
• Medical diploma mill (cartoon)
• Doctor and nurses)
• Modern midwif)
• Civil War nurse)
• Hospital nurse)
• Home nurse)
• Doctor, nurse, patient)
• Doctor instructing nurses)
• Nurse poster)