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Renamed the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) in 1867, the school in 1875 built a new home on North College Avenue. Designed by Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton, it included designated space for microscopy, a library, and a chemistry laboratory, in addition to lecture halls and dissection rooms.
Anna Broomall was chief resident physician at the Woman's Hospital of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1883 and instructor of obstetrics from 1875 to 1879. She became chair of obstetrics in 1879, and served as a professor in the department from 1880 to 1903. Anna Elizabeth Broomall was born in 1847 and grew up in Upper ...
In March 1850, a group of Quakers founded the Female (later Woman's) Medical College of Pennsylvania, and in October, Ann Preston enrolled in the first class. She graduated in December, 1851, at age 38. She stayed on at the school for a year of postgraduate study, and was appointed professor of physiology and hygiene there in 1853.
April 18, 1872, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (aged 58) Ann Preston (born December 1, 1813, West Grove, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 18, 1872, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American physician and educator who struggled for the rights of women to learn, practice, and teach medicine in the mid-1800s. Preston was educated in Quaker schools ...
"Titles of medical papers written by the alumnæ of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, prior to January 1st, 1897": p. 89-142 Notes This history of the first medical college for women in the U.S. provides a first hand account of the opposition women faced from those seeking to prevent their entrance into medicine, as well as an overview of the history of women's breakthrough into the ...
Hace 6 días · Clinic of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1856-1858, 1854-1855 Case books containing history and treatment for patients of Edwin Fussell, M.D., 1856-1858, Elwood Harvey, M.D., 1856, and Kersey G. Thomas, M.D. 1 volume 77; Hospital and Dispensary of the Alumnae of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
During its first seventy-five years (1850-1925), the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) graduated eighteen Black women-more than any other predominantly white medical school. This article examines the lives and careers of these "sisters of a darker race" as they sought a foothold in medi …
