Lydia Folger Fowler
Lydia Folger Fowler | |
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| Born | Lydia Folger May 5, 1823 Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | January 26, 1879 (aged 55) London, England |
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| Alma mater | Central Medical College, New York |
| Known for | Second female physician in the United States |
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| Fields | Eclectic Medicine |
Lydia Folger Fowler (May 5, 1823 – January 26, 1879) was a pioneering American physician, professor of medicine, and activist. She was the second American woman to earn a medical degree (after Elizabeth Blackwell) and one of the first American women in medicine and a prominent woman in science. She married a phrenologist and her daughter, Jessie Allen Fowler, continued their ideas.