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The boxes on this page link to primary and secondary resources relating to Early Modern women.
Here's a cure from Margaret Baker's Receipt book, 1650. Available in the Perdita digital collection.
"For the toothache
Take goose dung and warm it in a fire shoule very hot
so lay it all over that side of your face which is in pain"
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From Jenéa Tallentire's bibliography for her thesis: "An Edifice Built Like a City Wall: Women, Gender Ideology, and the Social Construction of Space in Early Modern Europe." University of Regina, 1998.
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