Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (1828-1898) was born in Fletcher, Vermont, and died
            in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
            in 1867 and was the first known practicing female physician in Toledo, Ohio. She was the
            founder and editor of 
Woman's Medical Journal (1893-98), which
            later became the 
Medical Woman's Journal. In 1884 she wrote to
            Eddy to inquire about purchasing copies of her work.
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