ABSTRACT
The role or roles of women in making and administering poisons in the early modern period have been widely studied in recent years. By contrast, Alisha Rankin offers a study of the role of women in preparing or procuring antidotes, a possible further skill in their role as healers. She explores whether or how far antidotes to poisons were gendered, and finds much new material in manuscripts, which indicates women’s interest in poison antidotes.
