Anna Martha Fullerton

Fullerton joined the faculty of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania after she graduated, taught obstetrics and gynecology courses,^[4] and was physician-in-charge of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1886 to 1896.^[5][6][7] She had a private practice in Philadelphia for a few years, then returned to India in 1899, to teach at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, the first medical school for women in India.^[8] In 1902 she and her sister Mary started working toward raising funds and establishing a hospital at Fatehgarh;^[2] the Fullerton Memorial Hospital for Women and Children opened in 1907.^[9][10]

Fullerton wrote two nursing textbooks: A Handbook of Obstetrical Nursing for Nurses, Students, and Mothers (1891),^[11] and Nursing in Abdominal Surgery and Diseases of Women (1893).^[12] She also wrote a health textbook for schoolchildren in India, The Human Body and How to Take Care of It. She wrote on "Missionary Work and Public Health" for the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania Alumnae Association conference in 1900.^[13] That same year, her essay "The Woman Physician in India" was published in the college's alumnae journal.^[14]

Fullerton and her sister Mary moved to Dehradun in 1911; she continued practicing medicine and midwifery there.^[15]

In 1911, Fullerton spent some months in Hartford, Connecticut, caring for her dying brother Edward.^[16] Her sister Mary died in 1931,^[17] and Fullerton died in 1938, aged 85 years, in Dehradun.^[18] Her papers are in the collections of Drexel University^[15][19] and the Presbyterian Historical Society.^[20]