Hannah Myrick

Hannah Glidden Myrick was the first female physician to receive a medical degree from Johns [Hopkins University] in 1900, thereby helping to blaze the trail for more women to enter medicine. Prior to Johns Hopkins, she attended Boston Boy's Latin School on a rare exception as a female. In 1886, Myrick graduated from Smith College. She practiced medicine in Boston and acted as the superintendent of the New England [Hospital for Women and Children], where she helped to introduce the use of X-rays to treat women and children. She never got married or had children.