Annie Clark (physician)

Dr Ann Elizabeth Clark (1844–1925) was among the first female medical students at the University of Edinburgh.[1] She was affiliated with the group recognised as the Edinburgh Seven, which included Dr Sophia L. Jex-Blake,[2] Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans and later Mary Anderson and Emily Bovell.

Illustration of the adult and foetal heel bone (calcaneus) from Annie Clark's MD thesis

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
  • Clark, Ann Elizabeth (1877). The Ankle Joint in Man. Bern: K. J. Wyss.

References
  1. Holton, Sandra Stanley (1999). "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. 11 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1353/jowh.2003.0097. PMID 22003543. S2CID 40986246.
  2. "Women and their Work" (PDF). No. Volume 4. The Nursing Record. 19 June 1890. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  3. "Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 – C for Annie Elizabeth Clark". Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  4. Kelly, Laura (February 2013). "'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. 22 (1): 113. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.724916. S2CID 143467317.
  5. Clark, Ann Elizabeth (1877). The ankle joint of man. Bern: K. J. Wyss.
  6. General Medical Council (1879). The Medical Register. London: Spottiswode & Co. p. 162.
  7. Stanley Holton, Sandra (2007). Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 9781135141172. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  8. Taylor, John William (1899). The treatment of gonorrhoeal salpingitis. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson. pp. 14.
  9. Ballantyne, John William (1907). Green's Encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine and surgery. Vol. 6. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons. pp. 338.
  10. Tait, Lawson (1884). General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section. Birmingham: Printed by Robert Birbeck. pp. 5.
  11. Lutzker, Edythe (1969). Womain Gain a Place in Medicine. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 149.
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