Women / Persons ~ P23211
Rachel Brooks Gleason M.D.
Alternate Names:
- Rachel Ingall Brooks
- Mrs. R. B. Gleason
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 27 November 1820 - 13 March 1905
Types:
- Activist, Women's Rights
- American (US)
- Medicine, doctor
- Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader
- Writer, Nonfiction
Note: received medical degree from Central Medical college; fourth woman in the US to receive MD; established the Elmira water cure with her husband Dr. Silas Gleason; treated Mark Twain's wife, Olivia