Events

Nov

5

Lecture

Putting Science to Work: Women Healers’ Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia with Susan H. Brandt

Location:

STEPS 101

November 5, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

In her mid-eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall was a widowed Philadelphia Quaker merchant who ran a dry goods business. She was also well known in her community as…

College of
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Gipson Institute

Events

Nov

5

Putting Science to Work: Women Healers’ Pursuit of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia with Susan H. Brandt