Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
Italian physician and educator, founder of the Montessori System of teaching children
Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and pioneer of women’s rights.
Marie Boivin
French midwife who invented the pelvimeter and vaginal speculum, which are used to dilate the vagina and examine the cervix. She discovered causes of miscarriages and was the first to use a stethoscope to listen to the fetal heartbeat. Her books Mémorial de l’art des accouchements (The Art of Obstretrics, 1812) and Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes (1833, on diseases of the uterus) were important texts for medical students and midwives.
Anna Comnena
Greek historian and scholar
Sophia Jex-Blake
In 1886 she opened the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, of which she was dean until her retirement in 1899. She is the author of American Schools and Colleges, Medical Women and Care of Infants.
Ella Mary Latham
Philanthropist and medical reformer
Fabiola
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Elisabeth of Wied
Queen of Romania, known as “Carmen Sylva”, a poet and novelist who fostered the higher education of women in Romania