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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Scottish women medical doctors The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Scottish medical doctors. It includes medical doctors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Dr Alice Margaret Moorhead MD LRCP LRCSE LM (Dub) (1868–23 June 1910), also known as Dr A.M. Moorhead, was one of the first practising female physicians and surgeons in Scotland. [1] In the late 19th century she established a practice and hospital for women in Dundee with her colleague Dr Emily Thomson.
Marion Gilchrist (5 February 1864 – 7 September 1952) was the first female graduate of the University of Glasgow, one of the first two women to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; [1] [2] and a leading activist in the Women's suffrage Movement in Scotland. In recognition of her achievements she has been honoured in a number of ways.
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) — Scottish scientist, inventor of penicillin; Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) — wrote on syphilis, forerunner of germ theory; Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — founder of psychoanalysis; Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008) — studied Kuru, Nobel Prize winner
He said a similar tradition of nicknames, called tee-names, was used in north east Scotland and may have already disappeared. Like the Gaelic tradition, tee-names were used to differentiate ...
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. [1] She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when six other women and she, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.
First British woman to qualify as a dentist, first female president of the British Dental Association [7] Robert Liston: 1815 Scottish surgeon, inventor of artery forceps and the Liston knife, known as "the fastest surgeon alive" Sir Henry Littlejohn: MD 1847, Prof. Medical Jurisprudence 1897–1906