Question

30 well known women in medicine between 1805 to 1830s( nurses, midwifes, healers and physicians)

Answer 1

1. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) helped to organize the Women’s Rights Convention.
2. Sojourner Truth (1797-1893) took an active part in the abolition of slavery and worked for the rights of women.
3. Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) helped to recognize the misery of the Civil War as she was the Superintendent of Female nurse.
4. Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874) was the founder of the Holiness Movement. She worked for the cleansing of the sins before the arrival of death.
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811- 1896) spoke against slavery.
6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) fought for the women suffrage movement.
7. Biddy Mason (1818-1891) worked as a nurse and fought against slavery.
8. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) inspired the women suffrage movement and campaigned for gender equality.
9. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first women physician in the U.S. She trained women in medicine and opened a slum hospital of them.
10. Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) was a scientist who wrote ‘Science and Health with Key).
11. Clara Barton (1821-1912) provided aid to the soldiers and to the union.
12. Mary Walton (1829-1906) produced a method by which the smoke of the factory can be reduced.
13. Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the one who promoted science for women.
14. Carry A. Nation (1846-1911) worked against the sale of alcohol.
15. Jane Addams (1860-1935) worked for the disadvantaged people.
16. Anne Sullivan (1866-1936) was Helen Keller’s teacher who helped and encouraged her.
17. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) gave medical advice to the people so as to decrease the infant mortality rate.
18. Helen Keller (1880-1968) worked for the blind and people suffering from other diseases.