Post by Doris
McCraw
writing as Angela Raines
I've spent time looking
at the women doctors who received their license
to practice medicine around the same time as Susan, 'Doc Susie',
Anderson, who started her practice in Cripple Creek, Colorado in
1897. She did not move to Fraser, Colorado until 1907 where she
earned her 'fame'.
While the list is
fairly long, I thought I would share some additional names and their
contributions to Colorado and medicine.
Dr. Josepha Williams
and Dr. Madeline Marquette opened a private hospital and sanatorium
in Denver in 1889. In 1892 they added a nursing school to the
hospital – Sanatorium. Dr. Williams was the superintendent of the
facility. On a side note, Dr. Williams married Canon Charles Winfred
Douglas a musician and Episcopal priest in 1896.
Dr.Genevieve M Tucker
wrote "Mother, Baby, and Nursery: A Manuel for Mothers" published by
Roberts Brothers, copyright 1896. She practiced in Pueblo, Colorado.
Around 1898 she was elected president of the Colorado Homeopathic
Medical Society.
Dr. Ida Putnam began
her practice in Chicago, but in 1898 she received her Colorado
license and began a practice in Telluride, Colorado.
Dr. Florence Sabin was
a research doctor who did much to advance the area of medical
research. Her accomplishments are too numerous to list here.
Dr. Rose Kidd Beere was
written up in the “History of Colorado” edited by Wilber Fiske
Stone. She participated in the Philippine War of 1898-99 and WWI. She
was unable to travel to the Philippine’s as a doctor so she
gathered women to go there as nurses.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Bates, I've written of before. As you know she was the first woman
intern at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. From the book “A
History of Surgery at Cook County Hospital” by Patrick
D. Guinan, Kenneth J. Printen, James L. Stone, James S.T. Yao, we
find in the nineteen months she worked as an intern she worked in the
morgue, took part in fourteen amputations. Of her time there she
later said: “ the first six months were hell, the second six months
were purgatory, the next six months were heaven; when it came time
for me to leave, I wept bitter tears.”
So
there you have just a few of Doc Susie's contemporaries.
Researching the stories of these pioneering women has led me to heroines in my writing who were doctors. The first was Josie Forrester in "Josie's Dream"
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Doris Gardner-McCraw -
Author, Speaker, Historian-specializing in
Colorado and Women's History
Colorado and Women's History
Angela Raines - author: Where Love & History Meet
Books: Angela Raines Books
This is very interesting, Thank you for sharing this info. Your book sounds like a very good read and I really like the cover.
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