Hannah Glidden Myrick (August 31, 1871–October 23, 1973) was the first female physician to receive a medical degree from

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in 1900, thereby helping to blaze the trail for more women to enter medicine. Prior to Johns Hopkins, she attended Boston Boy's Latin School on a rare exception as a female. In 1886, Myrick graduated from Smith College. She practiced medicine in

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and acted as the superintendent of the

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, where she helped to introduce the use of

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s to treat women and children. She never got married or had children.

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