Caroline B. Winslow

Caroline Brown Winslow (November 19, 1822 – December 7, 1896) was an American physician, and the fifth woman in the United States to graduate in medicine.

[1][2] In 1850, she studied human anatomy under Rachel Brooks Gleason, M. D., at Glen Haven, New York and in December 1851, entered the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in June 1853.

In April 1864, after the death of her parents, she went to Washington, D. C., where she served as a regular visitor in military hospitals under the auspices of the New York State Agency.

After the Civil War, she spent eight months in Baltimore, Maryland, before settling in Washington where she set up a homeopathy practice.

[1][4][5] In 1893 sculptor Adelaide Johnson made a bust of Caroline Brown Winslow which was exhibited in the Rotunda of the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Caroline B. Winslow by Adelaide Johnson
Susan Ann Edson 1823–1897