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Doctor Mary Walker

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Getting a Certificate From a Hygienic College

She treated men with sometimes nothing but water, and strips of fabric torn from her own personal nightgown. She once traded her own boots off her own personal feet to a civilian who had been hoarding some corn meal for his patients. And those patients repaid her by stealing a pig from this poor pair of sisters who had had the pig hidden in the house. After lincoln's emancipation proclamation, things kind of heated up on the battle front,. she returned, this time to the theatre of war - it was quite horrible.

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