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Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings; May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) [1] was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada [2] and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. [3]
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Canadian women physicians The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Physicians from Canada .
California joined the Union as a free state via the Compromise of 1850. By the end of the 19th century, California was still largely rural and agricultural , with a population of about 1.4 million. Pre-Columbian history (c. 13,000 BC – 1530 AD)
Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician, suffragist and the first woman to receive a medical degree in Québec; David Sackett CC FRSC (1934–2015) – founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University; Mary Elizabeth MacCallum Scott (1865–1941) – physician and missionary in Ceylon
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Black Canadian physicians and Category:19th-century Canadian women physicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Julia Seton (1862–1950) - American physician, lecturer, New Thought writer; Frank Slaughter (1908–2001) - American bestseller author, wrote (Doctor's Wives) Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) - author; Benjamin Spock (1903–1988) - American pediatrician, wrote Baby and Child Care; Patrick Taylor - Canadian best-selling novelist
The Women's College Hospital in Toronto that Smillie helped found as the Ontario Medical College for Women. Jennie Smillie Robertson (February 10, 1878 – February 26, 1981), known throughout her career as Jennie Smillie, was the first Canadian female surgeon and also performed the country's first major gynecological surgery.