Mary Spackman

Mary Spackman (born in Maryland, US) was the first female medical student to graduate from Howard University in 1872.^[1]

Mary Spackman applied for a licence to practice medicine and for consultation privileges from the Medical Society of the District of Columbia in 1872 but was rejected because she was a woman, in 1874 she joined with another recent graduate Mary Almera Parsons to petition for a licence to practice medicine.^[2]

References

^ "A Short History, Howard University College of Medicine". medicine.howard.edu.
^ Moldow, Gloria (1987). Women doctors in gilded-age Washington : race, gender, and professionalization. University of Illinois Press. pp. 105–115. ISBN 9780252013799.

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[1] "A Short History, Howard University College of Medicine". medicine.howard.edu.

[2] Moldow, Gloria (1987). Women doctors in gilded-age Washington : race, gender, and professionalization. University of Illinois Press. pp. 105–115. ISBN 9780252013799.

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