Edith Shove

She was the first British woman doctor to hold a public appointment with her work at the Post Office.

Unusually for the era, she trained as an apprentice with a male surgeon-apothecary named Dr Prior Purvis.

[7] This change in regulation was made possible by the implementation of the Medical (Enabling) Act supported by Russell Gurney in the same year.

in Prior to her graduation with the degree of MB in 1882 she was demonstrator in anatomy at the London School of Medicine for Women.

She carried out joint research on the diabetic pancreas with the French physician Charles Remy, published in 1882.