Hannah E. Myers Longshore, MD — general medicine
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Dr. Hannah E. Myers Longshore (1819–1901) was one of the first women to be admitted to the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and one of the first women faculty members at an American medical school. She gave public lectures on sexual health at a time when there was little public discussion of any kind on the subject, and became Philadelphia’s first woman physician in private practice, a role she maintained for forty years in spite of vocal, near-violent opposition.
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