Rebecca Lee Dorsey

Rebecca Lee Dorsey (August 30, 1859 – March 29, 1954) U.S. physician and endocrinology expert.

Dorsey was a pioneer and is known as the world's first female endocrinologist and the first woman physician to practice in Los Angeles.[1]

Dorsey attended Wellesley College and was the first graduate to earn a medical degree[2] when she attended Boston University graduating in June 1882, she then traveled to Europe to study under Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister, returning to Los Angeles in 1886.[3] Dorsey established her own medical practice and specialised on obstetrics, pediatrics, and, later, endocrinology, and she was said to have been the attending physician at over 4,000 births during her lifetime and administered the first diphtheria inoculation in Los Angeles about 1893.[4]

Dorsey practice medicine for 60 years and then retired and established the first date farm in California.[5]

References
  1. RASMUSSEN, CECILIA (3 February 1997). "A Medical Pioneer's Many Firsts". Los Angeles Times.
  2. Singer, Sandra L. (2003). Adventures abroad : North American women at German-speaking universities, 1868-1915. Praeger. p. 33. ISBN 9780313323713.
  3. Davidson, J (2014). A century of homeopaths : their influence on medicine and health. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4939-0526-3.
  4. "Rebecca Lee Dorsey | American physician". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  5. Gill, Monica (15 July 2016). The 100 most influential medical pioneers of all time (First ed.). ISBN 9781508100959.


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