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
Born8 June 1832
Andover, New Hampshire
Died29 December 1903
Boston, Massachusetts
Alma materWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Anatomist 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

  1. ↑ U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925
  2. 1 2 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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