African-American chemist Alice Augusta Ball developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy of the early 20th century, but her work went unrecognised for many years because her white, male advisor stole her work after her untimely death at age 24.
Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.
Frenchwoman who treated the sick and injured in 1930s Egypt
Romanian-Hungarian science writer
Director of the Philadelphia School for Nursing
The first professionally trained American nurse
Navajo leader and activist
The first woman physician of Bulgaria.
When the Consultation Centre, “Mother and Child,” was formed in Latvia by Lady Paget, Dr. Cesniece-Freudenfelde became the head of the Medical Department.
Switzerland’s first female medical student, who dedicated her career as a doctor to the health of women and children