Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
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Dr Anna Quincy Churchill
Anna Quincy Churchill (1884-1971) was a physician who served on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine from 1918 to 1954.
Armeda Gibbs
Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.
Dr Lucy Anne Kirk
Successful homoeopathic physician of Boston
Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jessie Garnett
Boston’s first African American woman dentist
Dr Lucy Ellen Sewall
Surgeon, and Resident Physician at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury from 1872-75.
Frances Slanger
The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.
Dr Lillian Heath Nelson
In 1893, Dr. Lillian Heath became the first woman to practice medicine in Wyoming and one of the first women to practice medicine west of the Mississippi River.
Sarah Parker Remond
International anti-slavery lecturer and activist for African American and women’s suffrage. Later, she moved to Italy where she became a medical doctor.