Annie Clark (physician)
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Dr Ann Elizabeth Clark (1844–1925) was among the first female medical students at the University of Edinburgh[citation needed].[1] She was affiliated with the group recognised as the Edinburgh Seven[citation needed], which included Dr Sophia L. Jex-Blake,[2] Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans and later Mary Anderson and Emily Bovell.
Life[edit]
Clark was fifth of the 12 children of Eleanor and James Clark of Street, Somerset.[3] She travelled to the University of Bern with Jex-Blake and Pechey to study medicine.[4] Her graduation thesis was titled The Ankle Joint in Man.[5] She was licensed in medicine and midwifery by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on 27 May 1878.[6]
Committed to a career in medicine, Clark settled in Birmingham dedicating time to clinical work.[7] She worked in the fields of gynaecology and anaesthesiology and became the assistant to Lawson Tait.[8][9][10] She was entrusted with the care of Dr Jex-Blake in her later years, travelling from Birmingham to administer a treatment of anaesthetic.[11]
Writings[edit]
- Clark, Ann Elizabeth (1877). The Ankle Joint in Man. Bern: K. J. Wyss.
References[edit]
- ^ Holton, Sandra Stanley (1999). "To Live "through One's Own Powers": British Medicine, Tuberculosis, and "Invalidism" in the Life of Alice Clark (1874–1934)". Journal of Women's History. 11 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1353/jowh.2003.0097. PMID 22003543. S2CID 40986246.
- ^ "Women and their Work" (PDF). Vol. 4. The Nursing Record. 19 June 1890. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 – C for Annie Elizabeth Clark". Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ Kelly, Laura (February 2013). "'The turning point in the whole struggle': the admission of women to the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland". Women's History Review. 22 (1): 113. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.724916. S2CID 143467317.
- ^ Clark, Ann Elizabeth (1877). The ankle joint of man. Bern: K. J. Wyss.
- ^ General Medical Council (1879). The Medical Register. London: Spottiswode & Co. p. 162.
- ^ Stanley Holton, Sandra (2007). Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9781135141172. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ Taylor, John William (1899). The treatment of gonorrhoeal salpingitis. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. pp. 14.
- ^ Ballantyne, John William (1907). Green's Encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine and surgery. Vol. 6. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons. pp. 338.
- ^ Tait, Lawson (1884). General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section. Birmingham: Printed by Robert Birbeck. pp. 5.
- ^ Lutzker, Edythe (1969). Womain Gain a Place in Medicine. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 149.
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