Women’s health in Territorial Arizona to be discussed

Published on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:40 AM MST

What was it like to be a woman in the Southwest in the 19th and early 20th centuries? What kind of health care was available when people arrived? Where did the doctors come from, and when did they arrive? What is a traditional healer? What were the original alternative medicines?

When people think of ordinary women’s lives in the frontier West, they often assume that their access to health care must have been almost nonexistent. Yet people have lived here for millennia and have developed an effective pharmacopoeia for dealing with many women’s ailments.

As European colonizers pushed westward, so, too, did their midwives, doctors, homeopaths, proprietary medicine salespeople and traditional healers from many nations. This presentation discusses women’s ailments and healing alternatives in Territorial Arizona and the Southwest during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Safford City-Graham County Library and the Arizona Humanities Council host Dr. Ann Hibner Koblitz, who will present “Local Healers, Proprietary Medicines and Frontier Docs: Women’s Health in Territorial Arizona” in the Phelps Dodge room on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. Dr. Koblitz’s presentation will share what early medicine was like for women in those times and will open fascinating windows into history for all who attend.

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