Ella Blaylock Atherton | |
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| Born | Ella Blaylock January 4, 1860 Ulverston, Lancashire, England |
| Died | September 4, 1933 (aged 73) Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Queen's University |
| Occupation | physician |
Ella Blaylock Atherton (January 4, 1860 – September 4, 1933) was a British-born American physician. Atherton was the first woman in the province of Quebec to earn a diploma in medicine from a Canadian institution. She was the first woman admitted to a medical society in the U.S. state of Vermont, the first to be president of a local medical society in New Hampshire, and the first woman to perform abdominal surgery in New Hampshire.