Frances Emily White

Frances Emily White
An older white woman with dark eyebrows and grey curls; she is wearing a high-collared white blouse and a darker embroidered jacket fastened at the throat
Frances Emily White, from an 1895 publication
Born(1832-06-08)8 June 1832
Died29 December 1903(1903-12-29) (aged 71)
Boston, Massachusetts
EducationWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Medicine 1872
OccupationsAnatomist and physiologist

Frances Emily White (8 June 1832[1] – 29 December 1903) was an American anatomist and physiologist.

White was born in Andover, New Hampshire, and educated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She went on to become a demonstrator in Anatomy and Instructor in Physiology from 1872 to 1876. White was then a Professor of Physiology from 1876 until her death in 1903.[2]

White was one of the first women to lecture before the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and was the first woman delegate to the International Medical Congress, in 1890.[3] She was also a lifelong advocate for women's education.[2]

She died in Boston of uterine cancer at the age of 71.[4]

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925
  2. ^ a b Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781135963439. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Tenth International Medical Congress, Berlin, 1890". The Lancet. 135 (3476): 819–820. 1890. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)18287-0. PMC 6064405. PMID 30749873.
  4. ^ Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841–1915

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