Brown, Edith Mary (1864–1956)
Brown, Edith Mary (1864–1956)
English-born doctor. Born Mar 24, 1864 in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England; died Dec 6, 1956, in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Established North India Medical School for Christian Women in Ludhiana (1894, later Women's Christian Medical College)—1st medical college for women in India—and served as principal until 1942; trained local midwives and was responsible for fall in childbirth mortality rate; wrote handbook for midwives published in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi; awarded Gold Kaiser-I-Hund medal (1922); made DBE (1932). Her meditations, prayers, and poems were published by Friends of Ludhiana as My Work is for a King (1994).
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