Elizabeth D. A. Cohen

Elizabeth D. A. Cohen
Born Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen
(1820-02-22)February 22, 1820
New York, United States
Died May 28, 1921(1921-05-28) (aged 101)
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Nationality American
Fields Allopathic medicine
Alma mater Penn Medical University
Known for First female physician in Louisiana

Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (1820-1921) was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana in the United States.[1]She was born in New York to David and Phoebe (Magnus) Cohen of England. She married Dr. Aaron Cohen in New York.[2]Following the death of her first son she attended Penn Medical University in Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1857. Her thesis was titled "Prolapsus Uteri".[3] For thirty years from 1857 to 1887, she cared for the people of the French Quarter of New Orleans in a period which was marked by periodic epidemics of yellow fever and smallpox.[4] Dr. Cohen died in Louisiana at the age of 101. She is buried at Gates of Prayer Cemetery in New Orleans.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Biography: "Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen". Changing the Face of Medicine. National Library of Medicine.
  2. ↑ Ned Hérmad. (2010) NEW ORLEANS NOSTALGIA: Remembering New Orleans History, Culture and Traditions.New Orleans Bar Association
  3. ↑ Abrahams, Harold J. (1966). Extinct Medical Schools of Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, p. 220. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  4. ↑ Kahn, Catherine (1 March 2009). "Elizabeth D. A. Cohen.". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen at Find a Grave

External links

Further reading

  1. Blackmar, Mrs. K.K. "New Orleans First Woman Doctor." New Orleans Daily Picayune, January 26, 1913;
  2. Duffy, John, ed. The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana (1962);
  3. O’Brien, Sharon, ed. "The Attic Letters of Elizabeth D. A. Cohen, M. D."Tourovues: The Magazine of Touro Infirmary (Summer 1977);
  4. Samuels, Marguerite. "Woman Doctor Celebrates Her 100th Birthday." New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 22, 1920.


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