Noble empirics -- Art written down -- Dorothea of Mansfeld : a mirror and example for rich and poor -- Anna of Saxony and her medical 'handiwork' -- Elisabeth of Rochlitz and the experience of illness
Summary
Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen's pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen's pharmacy was bou
