Elizabeth D. A. Cohen

Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820-1921) was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana United States. Though born in New York, following the death of her first son she attended Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1857. For thirty years from 1857 to 1887, she cared for the people of the French Quarter of New Orleans in a period which was marked by periodic epidemics of yellow fever and smallpox.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Kahn, Catherine (1 March 2009). "Elizabeth D. A. Cohen.". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved January 24, 2013.

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Further reading

  1. Blackmar, Mrs. K.K. "New Orleans First Woman Doctor." New Orleans Daily Picayune, January 26, 1913;
  2. Duffy, John, ed. The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana (1962);
  3. O’Brien, Sharon, ed. "The Attic Letters of Elizabeth D. A. Cohen, M. D."Tourovues: The Magazine of Touro Infirmary (Summer 1977);
  4. Samuels, Marguerite. "Woman Doctor Celebrates Her 100th Birthday." New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 22, 1920.
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