Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and pioneer of women’s rights.
English physician and pioneer of women’s rights.
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.
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.
Greek historian and scholar
Philanthropist and medical reformer
Founder of the first hospital in Rome.
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Caring for soldiers, she declared that the officers were sufficiently looked after, and she would work where most needed. And they were ardently devoted to “Mother” Bickerdyke.
The most eminent and successful Māori nurse of her day
English author and letter-writer, who promoted the practice of inoculation against smallpox in Britain.