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‘Self-Education and Mentoring in the Domestic Medical Texts of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell’ - Dr Alexis Wolf (Birkbeck, University of London) Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering how women engaged in medical practice in a variety of contexts.