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When not having visions or composing music, Hildegard was working in the infirmary, working in the garden, writing medical textbooks and natural history textbooks, corresponding with all the kings and queens of Europe or inventing her own language and alphabet. She’s credited with introducing natural history to German speaking lands so she’s next in my #womenInSTEM series.

#linocut #printmaking #naturalHistory #botany #conlang #histsci

During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" (below) could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

#histmed #histsci #WWI #warhistory #war #medhist #science #womeninstem #womenshistory #histodon #histodons #twittermigration #twitterexodus