Mary Trye Explained
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.
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.[2] in Medicatrix she asserted her right to write and publish.[3] She defended the practice of iatrochemistry as opposed to the Galenic approach supported by the official Royal College of Physicians.[4] [5] [6] Her medical philosophy was influenced by Jan Baptist Van Helmont.[7]
Notes and References
- Cook. Harold J.. 23 September 2004. "Mary Trye". 10.1093/ref:odnb/45830.
- Book: Ostovich . Helen . Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700 . Sauer . Elizabeth . Sauer . Professor of English Elizabeth . Smith . Melissa . 2004 . Psychology Press . 978-0-415-96646-7 . en.
- Book: Trye . Mary . Medicatrix, Or, The Woman-Physician . 1675 . Printed By T.R. and N.T. and sold by Henry Broome . London . A2.
- Read . Sara . 2016-09-01 . "My Method and Medicines": Mary Trye, Chemical Physician . Early Modern Women . 11 . 1 . 137–148 . 10.1353/emw.2016.0048 . 79376248 . 1933-0065.
- Book: Whaley, L.. Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800. 2011-02-08. Springer. 978-0-230-29517-9. en.
- Book: English women's voices, 1540-1700. 1992. Miami . Florida International University Press. 978-0-8130-1083-0.
- Clairhout . Isabelle . 2014-09-08 . Erring from Good Huswifry? The Author as Witness in Margaret Cavendish and Mary Trye . Renaissance and Reformation . en . 37 . 2 . 81–114 . 10.33137/rr.v37i2.21811 . 171866511 . 2293-7374. free .
