Monday, December 15All That Matters

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1885

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  • 10 October 1885, Photograph of Anandibai Joshee (left, was only 22 when she passed away, she remained a source of inspiration for Indian women) from India, Kei Okami (center,taking a position at the Jikei Hospital) from Japan, and Sabat M. Islambouli (right, very little is known about Dr. Sabat Islambouli. She was a Syrian Jew who returned to Damascus after completing her medical degree ) from Ottoman Syria, students from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.

    All three were the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine from a Western university.

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