Her health problems extended her acquaintance among physicians, many of whom visited her at Ragley. She consulted the Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes
. Medical men who knew her and wrote about her case included Ezekiel Foxcroft
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1675: Mary Trye, who like her father, Thomas O'Dowde,...
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1675
Mary Trye
, who like her father, Thomas O'Dowde
, was a medical practitioner, published Medicatrix; or, The Woman-Physician, which is primarily a defence of him in his dispute with a rival, Henry Stubbe
.