Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla

Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla (26 September 1868 – 9 November 1898), known as Amy Castilla, was an Australian medical doctor and journalist. With a group of other women doctors, she was one of the founding members of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2007.[1]

Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla

She studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, receiving an MBBS in 1893.[2] She was the first woman to be appointed house surgeon in a general hospital when she took up that role at St Vincent's Hospital in 1894.[3] She died of tuberculosis, and was cared for in her illness by her friend and fellow doctor Helen Sexton. Her sister, Ethel Castilla, was a poet and correspondent for The Sydney Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and The Herald and Weekly Times.[4]

References
  1. "Queen Victoria Hospital Founders". Victoria State Government. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  2. "Women Doctors of Victoria : Miss Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla, M.B." The Australasian. 23 March 1895. p. 23.
  3. "Personal Items", The Bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 14 (741): 12, 28 April 1894, ISSN 0007-4039
  4. "Obituary – Marie Elizabeth Amy Castilla". Obituaries Australia. Retrieved 22 June 2023.


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