Edith M. Lincoln, MD — pediatric medicine (pulmonology)
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Dr. Edith M. Lincoln (1899–1971), a pediatrician who pioneered the use of drugs for treating tuberculosis in children, was head of the children’s “chest clinic” at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan from 1922 until her retirement in 1956.
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