Annie Clark (physician) explained

Dr Ann Elizabeth Clark (1844–1925) .[1], which included Dr Sophia L. Jex-Blake,[2] Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans and later Mary Anderson and Emily Bovell.

Life

Clark was fifth of the 12 children of Eleanor and James Clark of Street, Somerset.[3] She travelled to the University of Bern with Jex-Blake and Pechey to study medicine.[4] Her graduation thesis was titled The Ankle Joint in Man.[5] She was licensed in medicine and midwifery by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on 27 May 1878.[6]

Committed to a career in medicine, Clark settled in Birmingham dedicating time to clinical work.[7] She worked in the fields of gynaecology and anaesthesiology and became the assistant to Lawson Tait.[8] [9] [10] She was entrusted with the care of Dr Jex-Blake in her later years, travelling from Birmingham to administer a treatment of anaesthetic.[11]

Writings

Notes and References

  1. Holton. Sandra Stanley. To Live "through One's Own Powers": British Medicine, Tuberculosis, and "Invalidism" in the Life of Alice Clark (1874–1934). Journal of Women's History. 1999. 11. 1. 75–96. 10.1353/jowh.2003.0097. 22003543. 40986246.
  2. News: Women and their Work. 17 February 2015. 4. The Nursing Record. 19 June 1890.
  3. Web site: Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 – C for Annie Elizabeth Clark. Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. 17 February 2015.
  4. Kelly. Laura. 'The turning point in the whole struggle': the admission of women to the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. Women's History Review. February 2013. 22. 1. 113. 10.1080/09612025.2012.724916. 143467317.
  5. Book: Clark, Ann Elizabeth. The ankle joint of man. K. J. Wyss. 1877. Bern.
  6. Book: General Medical Council. The Medical Register. Spottiswode & Co.. 1879. London. 162.
  7. Book: Stanley Holton. Sandra. Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930. 2007. Routledge. 154. 9781135141172. 17 February 2015.
  8. Book: Taylor, John William. The treatment of gonorrhoeal salpingitis. John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. 1899. London. 14.
  9. Book: Ballantyne, John William. Green's Encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine and surgery. William Green & Sons. 1907. 6. Edinburgh. 338.
  10. Book: Tait, Lawson. General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section. Printed by Robert Birbeck. 1884. Birmingham. 5.
  11. Book: Lutzker. Edythe. Womain Gain a Place in Medicine. 1969. McGraw Hill. New York. 149.

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