Elizabeth D. A. Cohen
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| Born | Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen February 22, 1820 New York, United States |
| Died | May 28, 1921 (aged 101) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Penn Medical University |
| Known for | First female physician in Louisiana |
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| Fields | Allopathic medicine |
Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820-1921) was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana in the United States.[1]She was born in New York to David and Phoebe (Magnus) Cohen of England. She married Dr. Aaron Cohen in New York.[2]Following the death of her first son she attended Penn Medical University in Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1857. Her thesis was titled "Prolapsus Uteri".[3] 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.[4] Dr. Cohen died in Louisiana at the age of 101. She is buried at Gates of Prayer Cemetery in New Orleans.[5]
References
- ^ Biography: "Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen". Changing the Face of Medicine. National Library of Medicine.
- ^ Ned Hérmad. (2010) NEW ORLEANS NOSTALGIA: Remembering New Orleans History, Culture and Traditions.New Orleans Bar Association
- ^ Abrahams, Harold J. (1966). Extinct Medical Schools of Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, p. 220. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Kahn, Catherine (March 1, 2009). "Elizabeth D. A. Cohen.". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen at Find a Grave
External links
Further reading
- Blackmar, Mrs. K.K. "New Orleans First Woman Doctor." New Orleans Daily Picayune, January 26, 1913;
- Duffy, John, ed. The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana (1962);
- O’Brien, Sharon, ed. "The Attic Letters of Elizabeth D. A. Cohen, M. D."Tourovues: The Magazine of Touro Infirmary (Summer 1977);
- Samuels, Marguerite. "Woman Doctor Celebrates Her 100th Birthday." New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 22, 1920.
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