BAKER, Anna

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Anna BAKER

Biography


Name	Anna BAKER
Gender	Female
Primary occupation	medical (Nurse 1627)
Period of medical practice	1579-1637
Place of birth	London (Stroud [near Highbury] (?))
Address	Turnmill Street 1589. St Andrew Undershaft 1627
Other notes	Trouble 1589. Nurse 1627 (husband in the East Indies) in G. Martin's house. The two may not be the same.

Known London address


	Turnmill Street
Date	1589
	St Andrew Undershaft
Parish	St Andrew Undershaft [incl St Mary Axe, 1565]
Ward	Aldgate
Date	1637

Censorial hearings


	18 April 1589
Entry	B was accused by Mrs SHARDE (663) of Turnmill Street of practising medicine on many patients, and of having given fumigations and purgatives, as in the case of the wife of Beck. Had learnt medicine from a surgeon called Turner, living at Stroude, who often spoke in public.
Initiator of the complaint	other medical practitioner
Action taken	?
Verdict	case not completed
Number of crimes	1

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