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Edited by F.A. Loomis. 177 pp., illustrated. Seattle, Storm Peak Press, 1994. $11.95. ISBN 0-9641357-0-1.

Mary Rowland, a frontier physician who died in 1966 at the age of 93, was a strong-willed woman who practiced medicine long before the passage of women's suffrage. Her memoirs offer powerful portraits of patients with cancer, mental illness, infectious diseases, and histories of abuse. The book, a loosely organized collection of anecdotes, includes a variety of fascinating cases and provides insight into the discrimination that Rowland encountered as a physician.

On the Nebraska prairie, Rowland's mother delivered babies and then took care of not only the mother and child but also the rest of the family, at a weekly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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