Louise Pearce, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)
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Dr. Louise Pearce (1885–1959), a physician and pathologist, was one of the foremost women scientists of the early 20th century. Her research with pathologist Wade Hampton Brown led to a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919.
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