President Joseph F. Smith: "Women may indeed administer with consecrated oil, confirming rather than sealing the blessing, making no mention of authority. They may also continue the practice of washing and anointing women who are about to give birth."
[Source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Newell, Linda King. “A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Washing, Anointing, and Blessing the Sick Among Mormon Women.” Sunstone (September-October 1981):16-25.
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