Boivin, MARIE, a French midwife, born in 1773, became a nun; but after the destruction of the nunnery at the Revolution, she devoted herself to midwifery. So distinguished was she as superintendent of the Maternité at Paris, that the king of Prussia conferred an order on her, and Marburg University the degree of M.D. She died in 1841.
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