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This dimension names the specific specialty a healer is best known for practicing. Wikipedia notes that doctors "may focus on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment, known as specialities." Browsing this way collects every healer known for the same specialty.

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Era First Practiced
1880 1
Tradition or Region
Western biomedicine 1
Specialist In
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1. Obstetrics (Wikipedia)
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  • Obstetrics, late 19th century formalization, era
    Before the 18th and 19th centuries, midwifery was well established, but obstetrics was not recognized as a specific medical specialty. By the late 19th century...delivery of babies by doctors became popular and readily accepted.
  • Obstetrics, late 19th century formalization, region
    Before the 18th and 19th centuries, midwifery was well established, but obstetrics was not recognized as a specific medical specialty. By the late 19th century...delivery of babies by doctors became popular and readily accepted.
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