Anna Longshore Potts

Anna Longshore Potts
M.D.
portrait photograph of a middle-aged woman
"A Woman of the Century"
Born
Anna Mary Longshore

April 16, 1829
Attleboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedOctober 24, 1912
San Diego, California, U.S.
Alma materWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Known forlectures
Spouse
Lambert Hibbs Potts
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(m. 1857)​
Children1
Relatives
Scientific career
Fieldswomen's health
InstitutionsParadise Hotel and Sanitarium
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Anna Mary Longshore Potts (née Longshore; April 16, 1829 – October 24, 1912) was an American physician and medical lecturer of the long nineteenth century.[1] She was one of eight members of the first graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She practiced in Philadelphia for a few years after her graduation, then for five years in Adrian, Michigan.[2] Thereafter, she made a tour of the Pacific coast and elsewhere in the United States as well as New Zealand, Australia, and England on the prevention of sickness.[3] She traveled around the world twice and gained a reputation as an author and lecturer. Her lifework was a crusade against ignorance and prejudice; as she said, a "diffusion of physiological knowledge would not only tend to prevent disease, but would also be a potent factor in the preservation of morality".[4] Potts belonged to numerous clubs.[5]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "WOODWARD, Mrs. Caroline M. Clark". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 586–87. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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  4. ^ "Anna M. Longshore-Potts". Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express. 16 October 1898. p. 7. Retrieved 14 August 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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