Joanna Stephens and the Stone: Credibility Economy in the History of Medicine

Peer-reviewed history-of-medicine article (PMID and DOI confirmed by direct fetch of the PubMed record). Establishes Stephens's active period (fl. 1720-1741), the two-year petitioning process before Parliament paid her, and that she had support from prominent contemporary medical figures alongside contemporaneous case evidence of the tonic's effect in some patients. Walsh's thesis is that gender and outsider status shaped how the medical establishment received and later erased Stephens's own account of her discovery; used in this bundle for her biographical/professional-reception facts and NOT as a source for any claim that the medicine was proven broadly effective.