U.S. National Institutes of Health

Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, MD — surgery

Courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives

Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen (1820–1921) was Louisiana’s first woman physician. She cared for the people of the French Quarter of New Orleans for 30 years, from 1857 to 1887—when yellow fever and smallpox regularly ravaged the population.

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