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The hot comb was an invention developed in France as a way for women with coarse curly hair to achieve a fine straight look traditionally modeled by historical Egyptian women. [44] However, it was Annie Malone who first patented this tool, while her protégé and former worker, Madam C. J. Walker , widened the teeth.
Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865–1887), the first Indian woman to obtain a medical degree having graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915) was the first Native American woman to obtain a medical degree. Sofia Okunevska (1865–1926) was the first Ukrainian female doctor. [88]
Abell died at home in Needham, Massachusetts on 3 December 1893 after a short illness, at the age of 85. [4] Described in The Medical Current as 'one of the oldest women practitioners of homeopathy', [5] an obituary in the New England Medical Gazette, published in January 1894, remembered her as 'long known and honored in Boston and elsewhere as one of the pioneers of homeopathy, and of women ...
Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead (April 6, 1867 – January 1, 1941) was a pioneering feminist and obstetrician [1] who promoted the role of women in medicine. [2] She wrote A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in 1938. [3]
Adriane Fugh-Berman is a professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology, and in the department of family medicine, at Georgetown University Medical Center.She is also the director of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that promotes rational prescribing and researches the effects of pharmaceutical and medical device industry marketing on prescribing behavior ...
Dara Ann Kass (born September 6, 1977) is a practicing emergency medicine physician and a consultant in healthcare policy and impact. She is a longtime advocate for advancing the careers of women in medicine.
Jones was born in East Bloomfield, New York, on October 19, 1835, the fourth child of Henry and Mary Alma (Mott) Jones.She attended district schools in East Bloomfield and Black Rock; she completed normal school training at the East Aurora Academy in New York and began teaching at the age of fifteen.
The woman treated her mother with carbolic acid, at this time the woman also slept in the same bed with her mother and developed an unknown sickness. After the nurse on the case noticed the woman's condition Dr. McKinney was brought in, where she successfully treated the woman. Susan's second paper "Marasmus Infantum" was published in 1886.