Re: Prediction time...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Just to prove that I'm as capable of undermining my own theories as anyone 
else, I have had no luck in making sense of Tony Clarke's pineapple mayweed 
(matricaria matricarioides) <--> period pain connection. In fact, 
everything I've read seems to indicate that this was originally native to 
North America. Is this correct?

Regardless, here's a women-healers-in-history book-list. As normal, I 
haven't yet read any of these, so my normal rule of "caveat lector" (or do 
I mean "hannibal lector"?) applies:-

"Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers"
- Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English. Glass Mountain Pamphlets.

"Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives"
- Elisabeth Brooke.

"Medicine Women: A Pictorial History Of Women Healers"
- Elisabeth Brooke.

"Woman as Healer"
- Jeanne Achterberg, Emily Hilburn Sell.

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.....