Almah Jane Frisby

Almah Jane Frisby (July 8, 1857 – November 12, 1931) was an American physician and professor at the University of Wisconsin.

[1] Almah Frisby trained as a physician at the Boston University School of Medicine, earning her medical degree in 1883.

[6] From 1889 to 1895, Frisby was a professor of "hygiene and sanitary science" and principal of Ladies' Hall at the University of Wisconsin, teaching and supervising women students.

[7] In 1897, she coauthored a report for the United States Department of Agriculture titled "Losses in Boiling Vegetables and the Composition and Digestibility of Potatoes and Eggs".

[9][10] Almah Jane Frisby died in 1931, in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74 years.