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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