Myra K. Merrick

Myra King Merrick (1825–11 November 1899) was the first female medical doctor in the US state of Ohio.

Early life and education

Merrick was born in 1825 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England to mother Elizabeth née Ball and Richard King. She and her parents immigrated to Taunton, Massachusetts where she worked in a cotton mill. In 1841, Merrick moved to East Liverpool, Ohio.[1] Merrick attended Central Medical College in Rochester, New York, graduating on May 27, 1852.[2][3]

Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College for Women

In the 1860s, the Western College of Homeopathic Medicine stopped admitting women students. In response to this, Merrick and C.O. Seaman formed the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College for Women. Merrick became an instructor at this school, which made her "the first woman medical college professor outside of the East Coast".[4] Among her patients was John D. Rockefeller.[5]

References
  1. "Merrick, Myra King". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  2. The New England Medical Gazette, vol. 23, Medical Gazette Publishing Company, 1888, pp. 454–455
  3. Waite, Frederick C. (May 1932). "Dr. Lydia Folger Fowler". Annals of Medical History. 4 (3): 293. ISSN 0743-3131. PMC 7945203. PMID 33944146.
  4. "Myra K. Merrick". Ohio History Central. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  5. Kirschmann, A. T. (1999). "Adding women to the ranks, 1860-1890: a new view with a homeopathic lens". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 73 (3): 429–446. doi:10.1353/bhm.1999.0120. ISSN 0007-5140. PMID 10500338. S2CID 43162003.


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