Ida Sophia Scudder, MD (seated left) — internal medicine
Courtesy Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
In the early 1890s in India, before Dr. Ida Scudder (1870–1960) had even decided to study medicine, she was summoned one evening to attend to several women in childbirth whose husbands refused to allow the presence of a male physician. Watching helplessly as all three women died, Scudder committed herself to providing Indian women with medical education and care. She went on to do just that, in a career spanning five decades.
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