Six witnesses affirmed that Jacoba had cured them, even after numerous doctors had given up, and one patient declared that she was wiser in the art of surgery and medicine than any master physician or surgeon in Paris. But these testimonials were used against her, for the charge was not that she was incompetent, but that-as a woman-she dared to cure at all.
( Barbara Ehrenreich )
[ Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A ]
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