Norah Schuster
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Norah Henriette Schuster FRCPath was a British pathologist and the first woman to take the pre-clinical medical course at the University of Cambridge. She was the first woman to be appointed as a doct
Schuster (Royal Society of Medicine), late 1970s
Nora Schuster, aged 3.
Norah Schuster at the first meeting of the British Pathological Association, 1928. (middle row, second from right)
History of medicine
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The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, thro
Norah Schuster
…woman president of the Association of Clinical Pathologists in 1950. Schuster produced several medical papers but most of her writing was about the history of medicine. She was vice-president of the History of Medicine Society (previously section), at the Royal Society of Medicine for many years, and "remembered fondly…
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras
Yarrow, a medicinal plant found in human-occupied caves in the Upper Palaeolithic period
A cuneiform terracotta tablet describing a medicinal recipe for poisoning (c. 18th century BCE). Discovered in Nippur, Iraq.
Magical stela or cippus of Horus inscribed with healing encantations (c. 332 to 280 BCE)