Mary Trye

Mary Trye was a woman who practiced medicine in Warwickshire, England and the city of London.[1] In 1675, she published Medicatrix, Or The Woman-Physician,a defense of her father, Charles O'Dowde. Though not much is known about Trye or her life, in Medicatrix she asserted her right to write and publish.[2] She defended the practice of iatrochemistry as opposed to the Galenic approach supported by the official Royal College of Physicians.

References

Cook, Harold J. (23 September 2004). ""Mary Trye"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45830.
Trye, Mary (1675). Medicatrix, Or, The Woman-Physician. London: Printed By T.R. and N.T. and sold by Henry Broome. pp. A2.

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[1] Cook, Harold J. (23 September 2004). ""Mary Trye"". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45830.

[2] Trye, Mary (1675). Medicatrix, Or, The Woman-Physician. London: Printed By T.R. and N.T. and sold by Henry Broome. pp. A2.