Joan Abbott
Joan Abbott was a nurse and midwife at hospitals in Brisbane and Canberra. She also served as a matron in the Middle East while enlisted by the Australian Army Nursing Service.
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Leila Denmark
Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.
Nancy Harts Militia
The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the US Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front.
Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Anna Morandi Manzolini
1700s Italian painter, sculptor, and anatomist, and for many years held the chair of Anatomy at the University of Bologna
Dr Sarah S Windsor
1800s American doctor
Catherine Doyle
1800s Irish nun and military nurse
Shirley Bechervaise
Shirley Bechervaise was an Australian Army Nursing Sister during the second World War and was serving with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in France at the time of the Evacuation from Dunkirk.
Myra King Merrick
1800s American physician
Rae Landy
Military nurse who served around the globe in service to the U.S. Army and the medical profession.