Almania Informative Speech

If you want to talk about a strong, powerful woman, I am expecting to hear Jacqueline Felice De Almania’s name. She was an Italian physician that put all of her male counterparts to shame. She practiced medicine in Paris, France in the 1300s.
Although we don’t know the exact date, Jacqueline was most likely born sometime in the 1290s, somewhere in the town of Florence. She grew up Jewish and as she grew and thrived, she grew ambitious. Jacqueline was upper-class and was bored with her average schoolwork. As Jacqueline grew older she became fascinated with medicine and wanted to explore the subject more. She decided to move to Paris.
Being Jewish, this brought along several problems. In the 1300s, Paris was growing and thriving and opening
These courses were redundant and had nothing to do with the medicine field. These courses were taken at a church that only Christians and males were allowed to take. This excluded Jacqueline.
Jacqueline was backed into a corner. She was prohibited from obtaining a license because of her religion and gender. And if she did practice without a license she would most likely be put on trial and shut down.
This did not stop her though, she continued to treat patients like nothing had ever changed. This angered a lot of fellow physicians. They decided to take her to court. These physicians based their arguments on a “lack of knowledge” and illegal actions (remember those redundant classes). Good thing Jacqueline had a good lawyer.
At the trial on August 11th, 1322, Jacqueline's attorney invited some of her cured patients. This made eight patients total. These patients were all turned away by other physicians, but were cured by Jacqueline. This included Joana Bilbault. At this trial, Jacqueline also argued for herself, she said that she should be able to continue treating patients because “women would rather die than receive backlash or get judged by male physicians” (but Jacqueline cured both men and women, so all this did was help her