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          A woman making her own way

          Few others have influenced anthroposophic medicine, pharmacy and curative education the way Ita Wegman has. A doctor dedicated to social causes, her many-sided life was shaped by fate time and again: in this article, we follow in her footsteps for a portion of it.

          The cosmopolitanism spirit was with Ita Wegman from birth: she was born in 1876 on the island of Java.

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          6. This image shows her aged 40 in front of her house, which is now the Ita Wegman Institute in Arlesheim (Switzerland).
          Photo: WALA Heilmittel GmbH’s historical company archive

          Ita Wegman’s father was a colonial civil servant who managed a sugar factory, which allowed the family to achieve a certain degree of wealth.

          She excelled as a student so she received private lessons and was then sent to a secondary school in her native country of the Netherlands. As a result, Ita Wegman was already used to travelling from one world to another at a young age.

          On one of her trips between scho