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    Anna Hutchinson Searing

    Birth: 1-1830

    Death: 2-3-1912

    Nickname: Anna Searing

Biography

Anna Hutchinson Searing (1830-1912), was born in Poplar Ridge, another Cayuga County town in New York state, to a Quaker family. She matriculated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in October 1869, probably attending until the end of the term in March 1870. Following this, she engaged in clinical work in Boston at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. In 1871-72 she enrolled in the U-M Medical Department as a senior, indicating she was given credit for work previously completed. She wrote her graduation thesis on indigestion in 1872. After graduation she studied medicine in Vienna for one year.

Searing practiced medicine in Rochester, New York, with Sarah Adamson Dolley, the third woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree (after Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., 1849, and Lydia Folger Fowler, M.D., 1850). Dolley was an 1851 graduate of the Central Medical College of New York at Syracuse, an eclectic institution. Eclecticism was a medical approach that emphasized the use of medicinal plants. Searing was associated with the Provident Dispensary in Rochester, an ambulatory clinic for women and children. In 1895, she retired from practice and moved to California. She never married.

FMS mentions her in 18590107FMS_LMW1 in association with Emily Howland and the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C.

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Anna Hutchinson Searing (1830-1912), was born in Poplar Ridge, another Cayuga County town in New York state, to a Quaker family. She matriculated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in October 1869, probably attending until the end of the term in March 1870. Following this, she engaged in clinical work in Boston at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. In 1871-72 she enrolled in the U-M Medical Department as a senior, indicating she was given credit for work previously completed. She wrote her graduation thesis on indigestion in 1872. After graduation she studied medicine in Vienna for one year. Searing practiced medicine in Rochester, New York, with Sarah Adamson Dolley, the third woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree (after Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., 1849, and Lydia Folger Fowler, M.D., 1850). Dolley was an 1851 graduate of the Central Medical College of New York at Syracuse, an eclectic institution. Eclecticism was a medical approach that emphasized the use of medicinal plants. Searing was associated with the Provident Dispensary in Rochester, an ambulatory clinic for women and children. In 1895, she retired from practice and moved to California. She never married. FMS mentions her in 18590107FMS_LMW1 in association with Emily Howland and the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C.
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