Roys-Gavitt, Elmina M. (1828–1898)

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Roys-Gavitt, Elmina M. (1828–1898)

American physician and magazine founder. Name variations: Elmina M. Roys Gavitt; Elmina M. Roys. Born Elmina M. Roys, Sept 8, 1828, in Fletcher, VT; died Aug 25, 1898; m. Rev. F.C. Gavitt, 1876.

The 1st known woman physician of Toledo, Ohio, began career assisting her military surgeon brother, who was head of Maryland hospitals during the Civil War; graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1867); interned 2 years at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium in NY; established a Rochester, Minnesota, practice; moved to Toledo (1871); was the founder and 1st editor of the Woman's Medical Journal (1893–98), which became the Medical Woman's Journal and was published until 1952.

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