Anna Martha Fullerton Explained

Anna Martha Fullerton
Birth Date:August 16, 1853
Birth Place:Agra, India
Death Date:September 16, 1938
Death Place:Dehradun, India
Occupation:Medical educator, physician, hospital administrator, textbook author
Years Active:1880s-1910s
Relatives:George Stuart Fullerton (brother)

Anna Martha Fullerton (August 16, 1853 – September 16, 1938) was an American physician and medical educator, born in India.

Early life and education

Anna Martha Fullerton was born in Agra, the eldest of the seven children of American Presbyterian missionaries Rev. Robert Stewart Fullerton and Martha White Fullerton.[1] She was 12 when her father died, and she moved to Philadelphia with her widowed mother and younger siblings. She trained as a teacher, then attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, studying obstetrics under Dr. Anna Broomall and graduating with a medical degree in 1882.[2]

One of her brothers was philosopher and psychologist George Stuart Fullerton.[3]

Career

Fullerton joined the faculty of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania after she graduated, taught obstetrics and gynecology courses,[4] and was physician-in-charge of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1886 to 1896.[5] [6] [7] She had a private practice in Philadelphia for a few years, then returned to India in 1899, to teach at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, the first medical school for women in India.[8] In 1902 she and her sister Mary started working toward raising funds and establishing a hospital at Fatehgarh; the Fullerton Memorial Hospital for Women and Children opened in 1907.[9] [10]

Fullerton wrote two nursing textbooks: A Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing for Nurses, Students, and Mothers (1891),[11] and Nursing in Abdominal Surgery and Diseases of Women (1893).[12] She also wrote a health textbook for schoolchildren in India, The Human Body and How to Take Care of It. She wrote on "Missionary Work and Public Health" for the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania Alumnae Association conference in 1900.[13] That same year, her essay "The Woman Physician in India" was published in the college's alumnae journal.[14]

Fullerton and her sister Mary moved to Dehradun in 1911; she continued practicing medicine and midwifery there.

Personal life and legacy

In 1911, Fullerton spent some months in Hartford, Connecticut, caring for her dying brother Edward.[15] Her sister Mary died in 1931,[16] and Fullerton died in 1938, aged 85 years, in Dehradun.[17] Her papers are in the collections of Drexel University[18] [19] and the Presbyterian Historical Society.[20]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Genealogy of Hugh Stewart and His Descendants. 1914. F.J. Heer Printing. 38–39. en.
  2. Book: Chattopadhyay, Anjana. Women scientists in India : lives, struggles & achievements. 2018. 978-81-237-8144-0. First. New Delhi. 133–134. 1045373879.
  3. Web site: George Stuart Fullerton. 2020-10-10. Oxford Reference. en.
  4. News: 1897-09-30. Women's Medical College. 10. The Times. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  5. Anna M. Fullerton (May 3, 1893). "Woman in medicine: Her duties and responsibilities", An address to the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
  6. News: 1887-12-15. The Woman's Hospital. 2. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1897-01-22. Woman's Hospital Work. 8. The Times. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1899-08-05. Untitled news item. 6. The Times. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  9. Web site: Memorial Hospital. 2020-10-10. Memorial Hospital, Fatehgarh, Diocese of Agra.
  10. News: 1907-03-12. Lectured on Wadsworth. 8. Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  11. Book: Fullerton, Anna Martha. A Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing for Nurses, Students, and Mothers. 1891. P. Blakiston, Son & Company. en.
  12. Book: Fullerton, Anna Martha. Nursing in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. 1893. P. Blakiston, Son & Company. en.
  13. Fullerton, Anna M. "Missionary Work and Public Health", Transactions of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania May 17th and 18th, 1900.
  14. Fullerton. Anna M.. 1900. The Woman Physician in India. Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Alumnae Association. 55–58.
  15. News: 1911-07-07. Dr. Fullerton Dead. 2. Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1932-05-05. Charities Get $15,000. 14. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1938-11-17. Nieces, Nephews Get $15,000 Estate. 2. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2020-10-10. Newspapers.com.
  18. Web site: Anna M. Fullerton diary, 1915-1916. 2020-10-10. iDEA: Drexel Libraries E-Repository and Archives. 2021-05-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20210513083434/https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/lca%3A140777#page/1/mode/1up. dead.
  19. Web site: Anna M. Fullerton diary, 1917-1918. 2020-10-10. iDEA: Drexel Libraries E-Repository and Archives. 2021-05-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20210502062247/https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/lca%3A141719#page/1/mode/1up. dead.
  20. https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-320 Guide to the Anna Martha Fullerton Papers

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