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On first read of this article, I was struck by an inconsistent claim. The lead paragraph prominently claims that Frances (Morgan, later Barrett) was the “first woman to receive a doctorate in medicine from any university in Europe”. But the Education section states that “Russia's first woman physician had received her degree in the same year”.
It's not immediately clear which year is intended. Does it mean the same year the College of Apothecaries excluded women (1867), or the same year Morgan attained her degree (1870)? I had to go to another article to see that Nadezhda Suslova “graduated in 1867”.
If Suslova graduated in 1867 and Morgan in 1870, then Morgan couldn't be the first as stated in the lead/lede. (Assuming both degrees were doctorates.)
The source cited in the lead says “When Hoggan graduated in March 1870, aged only 26, she was only the second woman in Europe to have been awarded a Medical Doctorate, 3 months before Elizabeth Garret Anderson” [emphasis added].
Good points - it definitely needs clarifying. It is clear from the ODNB that she was the second in Europe "In March 1870, she was only the second woman to defend an MD thesis (on progressive muscular atrophy) before the entire medical faculty of Zürich University. More than 400 spectators watched her do so with consummate skill and become the first British woman to obtain a European MD degree." Suslova was 1867. Elizabeth Garret Anderson qualified as a medical practitioner in 1865 but not with a doctorate. Will update article when I can. --Mervyn (talk) 12:12, 13 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, Mervyn. I don't have access to ODNB, so it's good to that hear that it says the same as the Learned Society reference. Looks like the error arose from this edit Special:Diff/755816134. Current version reads great now, you've worded it better than I would have managed. Pelagic (talk) 10:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
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