Pauline Root
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May 22, 1859
Pauline Root | |
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 Mary Pauline Root, from the 1907 yearbook of Smith College | |
| Born | Mary Pauline Root May 22, 1859 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | July 10, 1944 (aged 85) Christmas Cove, Maine, U.S. |
| Occupations | Physician, missionary, educator |
Mary Pauline Root (May 22, 1859 – July 10, 1944) was an American physician, missionary, and educator. She established a women's hospital in southern India and was resident physician at Smith College.
Root was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of Henry Theodore Root and Mary Evelyn Lake Root.[1] She graduated from Ingham University and from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1883.[2] She pursued further medical training at Cornell Medical School in 1906.[3]
Career
Root was the first woman to be a resident physician at the Philadelphia's Blockley Hospital,[4][5] and the first woman physician to become a missionary with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.[6] In 1885 she went to Madurai in southern India,[7] to establish and run the American Hospital for Women and Children. Her missionary service ended in 1896.[6] She lectured about her work in India during furloughs,[8][9] and for years after she left the foreign mission field.[10][11]
Root lectured for the Student Volunteer Missionary Movement in 1902.[12] She was the resident physician at Smith College from 1906 to 1909, and taught hygiene classes there.[13] She was resident physician at the Bennett School in Millbrook, New York, from 1909 to 1910.[14] During and after World War I she was a lecturer for the YWCA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, traveling extensively in the United States to speak on social hygiene.[6][15]
Publications
- "Letter from Dr. Pauline Root" (1892)[16]
- "Japan" (1892)[17][18]
- "Japan: The Women's Bible Training School in Kobe" (1892)[19]
- "The Kindergarten in Kobe, Japan" (1892)[20][21]
- "Young Women in India—A Letter to Mothers" (1892)[22][23]
- "India; Contrasts" (1892)[24][25]
- "Memories of Medical Work" (1895)[26]