{"id":79,"date":"2024-04-22T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/?p=79"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T21:14:09","slug":"the-talbot-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/frn330\/the-talbot-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talbot Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elizabeth (Talbot) Grey (1581-1651), countess of Kent, and her sister, Aletheia Talbot Howard, the countess of Arundel, were a part of an elite group of women who had access to limited (informal) scientific education. Their published works, \u201cA choice Manuel of rare and select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgerie\u201d by Grey (1653) and \u201cNature Extenterata\u201d by Howard (1655) are recognized as the \u201cfirst printed books of technical and scientific material in England by women.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though both sisters had work published, many of their earlier works were unrecognized because of their \u201crecipe book\u201d style format, which ended up mostly being circulated between women in domestic spaces. Also, their work was able to be replicated or built upon by men in the professional sphere with little or no citations of their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grey specialized in herbal medicine and her knowledge and recipes were later used by formal physicians who also had published work in the field. Her most recognized remedy was called the \u201cCountess of Kent Powder\u201d, which consisted of crab claws, pearl, red and white coral, crabs\u2019 eyes, and lemon juice, and was used to treat measles and smallpox.2<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aletheia Howard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Howard\u2019s \u201cNature Exenterata\u201d also includes medicinal remedies and recipes. Howard also wrote a manuscript much earlier (1606) of remedies called \u201cA Booke of diuers Medecines, Broothes, Salues, Waters, Syroppes, and Oyntementes\u201d, of which there are only three copies. The manuscript is a collection of 397 recipes that are organized by illness or pain and the body part that they affected. The manuscript dealt with a variety of ailments, as minor as acne and as serious as kidney and liver problems.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

  1. Leigh Whaley, Women and the Practice of Medical Care<\/em> in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillon UK, 2011), 155 \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. Whaley, Medical Care<\/em>, 156 \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  3. Whaley, Medical Care<\/em>, 161-162 \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Elizabeth (Talbot) Grey (1581-1651), countess of Kent, and her sister, Aletheia Talbot Howard, the countess of Arundel, were a part of an elite group of women who had access to limited (informal) scientific education. <\/p>\n

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