McLaren, Agnes (1837–1913)

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McLaren, Agnes (1837–1913)

Scottish doctor. Born 1837 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died 1913.

Began medical studies at 38 and became the 1st woman graduate in medicine at University of Montpellier in France (1878); practiced in Nice; converted to Catholicism at age 60 and set out to provide women doctors to Catholic missions; founded the 1st Catholic medical mission in India, St. Catherine's Hospital in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan (1910); helped to achieve appointment of several women despite law banning women in religious orders from practicing medicine; work was continued by Anna Dengel and Joanna Lyons who founded the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries (1925).

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