Mary Trye

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Mary Trye (born 1642) was a woman who practiced medicine in Warwickshire, England and the city of London, in an era when women were not permitted to become licensed physicians.[1]

Little is known about Trye or her life. She was baptized as Mary Dowde on July 30, 1642; was married in 1660 to a merchant, Edward Stanthwaite; was widowed; and in 1670 married Berkeley Trye, with whom she had a son, William, in 1671.[2]

In 1675, she published Medicatrix, Or The Woman-Physician,a defense of her father, Thomas O'Dowde, who died caring for patients during the Great Plague of London, and whose practice she continued.[3] in Medicatrix she asserted her right to write and publish.[4] She defended the practice of iatrochemistry as opposed to the Galenic approach supported by the official Royal College of Physicians.[2][5][6] Her medical philosophy was influenced by Jan Baptist Van Helmont.[7]

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  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45830. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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    S2CID 79376248
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  3. ISBN 978-0-415-96646-7
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  4. ^ Trye, Mary (1675). Medicatrix, Or, The Woman-Physician. London: Printed By T.R. and N.T. and sold by Henry Broome. pp. A2.
  5. ISBN 978-0-230-29517-9
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  6. ISBN 978-0-8130-1083-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  7. S2CID 171866511
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