Dr Bertha De Vriese
Pioneering Belgian physician, the first woman to graduate in medicine from Ghent University.
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Alice Ball
African-American chemist Alice Augusta Ball developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy of the early 20th century, but her work went unrecognised for many years because her white, male advisor stole her work after her untimely death at age 24.
Dr Helen Boyle
Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.
Françoise Bruyère
Frenchwoman who treated the sick and injured in 1930s Egypt
Kata Bethlen
Romanian-Hungarian science writer
S Lillian Clayton
Director of the Philadelphia School for Nursing
Linda Richards
The first professionally trained American nurse
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Navajo leader and activist
Dr Tota Venkova
The first woman physician of Bulgaria.
Dr Zelma Cesniece-Freudenfelde
When the Consultation Centre, “Mother and Child,” was formed in Latvia by Lady Paget, Dr. Cesniece-Freudenfelde became the head of the Medical Department.