| Birth Date: | August 15, 1860 |
| Birth Place: | Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Cornell University |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Notable Works: | Mine eyes have seen: a woman doctor's saga |
Alfreda Bosworth Withington (August 15, 1860 – October 1, 1951) was an American physician and author.[1]
Withington was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in present-day Philadelphia, where her father, James Hervey Withington, was headmaster of Germantown Academy.[1] She was named for her mother, Alfreda Bosworth.[2] She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1877 to 1881. She then interned at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, but was refused a position at the Infirmary, since none of the directors would agree to let her take the entrance examination.[3]
At the age of 63, she obtained a Kentucky medical license and traveled to work as a medical settlement physician for seven years, between 1924 and 1931, ordinarily making calls on horseback.[4] Withington wrote her memoir titled Mine Eyes Have Seen in 1941.[5]
On October 1, 1951, she died and was buried in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[6]