Alfreda Bosworth Withington

Alfreda Bosworth Withington (August 15, 1860 – October 1, 1951) was an American physician and author.

[1] Withington was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in present-day Philadelphia, where her father, James Hervey Withington, was headmaster of Germantown Academy.

[3] At the age of 63, she obtained a Kentucky medical license and traveled to work as a medical settlement physician for seven years, between 1924 and 1931, ordinarily making calls on horseback.

[4] Withington wrote her memoir titled Mine Eyes Have Seen in 1941.

This biographical article related to a physician in the United States is a stub.