Mary Spackman (born in Maryland, US) was the first female medical student to graduate from Howard University in 1872. Mary Spackman applied for a licence to practice medicine and for consultation privileges from the

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in 1872 but was rejected because she was a woman, in 1874 she joined with another recent graduate Mary Almera Parsons to petition for a licence to practice medicine.

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