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First Black woman to serve in the North Carolina General Assembly Alfreda Johnson Webb (born February 21, 1923, in Mobile , Alabama) was a professor of biology and a doctor of veterinary medicine. She was the first Black woman licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the United States.
On June 13, 1883, Dr. Emily Stowe, a suffragist and first woman physician to practice medicine in Canada, led a group of supporters to a meeting at the Toronto Women's Suffrage Club where the group tabled a resolution stating "that medical education for women is a recognized necessity, and consequently facilities for such instruction should be ...
First African-American woman graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College May Edward Chinn (April 15, 1896 – December 1, 1980) was an American physician . She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College , now NYU School of Medicine, and the first African-American woman to intern at Harlem Hospital .
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.
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.
At the same time, she gave lectures to women in the United States and England about the importance of educating women and the profession of medicine for women. [6] In the audience at one of her lectures in England, was a woman named Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who later became the first woman doctor in England, in 1865. [6]
She was also the first Colombian woman (and first woman from Latin America) to obtain a medical degree. Constance Stone (1856–1902) was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia. Dolors Aleu i Riera (1857–1913) was the first female medical doctor in Spain when she started practicing medicine in 1879.
Russia: Olga Evgenevna Gabrilovich was the first female pharmacist to earn a degree in 1906. [113] Sweden: Leth was the first female pharmacist to have fulfilled a formal qualification. Maria Dauerer was the first female pharmacist to have obtained a license. [114] The first woman to have obtained a degree in pharmacology was Agnes Arvidsson ...