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Women healers treated most patients, not limiting themselves to treating solely women. [citation needed] The names of 24 women described as surgeons in Naples, Italy between 1273 and 1410 have been recorded, and references have been found to 15 women practitioners, most of them Jewish and none described as midwives, in Frankfurt, Germany ...
African-American women have been practicing medicine informally in the contexts of midwifery and herbalism for centuries. Those skilled as midwives, like Biddy Mason, worked both as slaves and as free women in their trades. Others, like Susie King Taylor and Ann Bradford Stokes, served as nurses in the Civil War.
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.
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Pages in category "Women in medicine" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "First women physicians" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Lovisa Åhrberg; B.
Pages in category "Women medical researchers" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), third woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (born Bristol). Margaret Bromhall (1890–1967), English radiotherapist. Edith Mary Brown (1864–1956), founded the first medical training facility for women in Asia.