Tracy, Martha (1876–1942)
Tracy, Martha (1876–1942)
American physician. Born April 10, 1876, in Plainfield, NJ; died Mar 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, PA; dau. of Jeremiah Evarts Tracy (lawyer) and Martha Sherman (Greene) Tracy; Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, medical degree, 1904; University of Pennsylvania, PhD in public hygiene, 1917.
Studied under William B. Coley and assisted in development of "Coley's Fluid" at Cornell Medical College; named dean of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1917); appointed assistant director of public health for city of Philadelphia (1940).
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