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Salomée Halpir
b. 1718, Nowogrodek, Poland; d. after 1760, location unknown
Regina Salomea Rusiecka was married at the age of fourteen to the oculist Jakub Halpir, who took his young wife to Constantinople (Istanbul) where he had a thriving practice. There she studied medicine and assisted her husband, eventually becoming a successful oculist herself. She traveled extensively, to Saint Petersburg, Vienna, across Silesia and the Balkans, practicing medicine in a number of Turkish, Polish, and Austrian towns. Around 1760, she wrote her memoirs, Proceder podrozy i zycia mego awantur (My Life's Travels and Adventures).
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