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| Born | Flora Alzora Brewster February 26, 1852 Alfred, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 1919 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | physician, surgeon, journalist, medical editor, inventor |
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Flora Alzora Brewster (February 26, 1852 – February 1919) was an American physician, surgeon, journalist, medical editor, and inventor. She is remembered as Baltimore, Maryland's first woman surgeon.[1]
In Baltimore, Brewster was a physician in charge of an institution caring for prostitutes and of a women's house of refuge. Later, she was the proprietor and surgeon in charge of a sanitarium.[2][3] She was an ardent advocate of the higher medical education of women.[4]
- ^ "Baltimore's First Woman Surgeon". The Baltimore Sun. 1 June 1952. p. 132. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Herringshaw 1914, p. 130.
- ^ Herringshaw 1919, p. 68.
- ^ Ridenbaugh 1897, pp. 152–56.