August 31: Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi


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August 31

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, who was born on this date in 1842, became the first woman to graduate from the Ecole de Medecine in Paris in 1871, then returned to New York to become America’s first professor of pediatrics.

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