Ernestina Pérez Barahona

She practiced medicine at San Borja Hospital and taught classes for female students, at the request of President José Manuel Balmaceda.

[4] She made another trip to Europe in 1910, publishing her book Compendio de Ginecologia in Leipzig in 1910.

[4][7] Related to her interest in public health and hygiene, she was concerned about alcoholism and how it would effect Chileans.

[7] Many years after her death, the Chilean Women's Union (La Unión Chilena De Mujeres) convened a special meeting in her honor, including a speech by Elena Caffarena.

[6] They honored her for opening up the field of medicine for women in South America and her feminist advocacy.