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Wendy Churchill’s impressive new book, Female Patients in Early Modern Britain: Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment, joins this resurgence. The first ‘comprehensive study of female illness and treatment in early modern Britain’, it analyses an unprecedented number of medical casebooks, observations and letters, to ‘reveal how sex and gender influenced medical diagnosis and treatment for female patients during this pivotal period in British medicine’ (p. 14), 1590 to 1740.