Alice Hamilton - A Woman's Life Story

Alice hamilton was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the united states. She took physics, chemistry, biology and anatomy courses after she finished at miss porter's. Her education continued with a year of study in germany where her chosen fields of bacteriology and pathology were most advanced. Once all of that schooling was done, alice began teaching at northwestern universities women's medical school. In addition to her teaching, she also joined chicago's hull house and moved in there. That is the settlement house founded by jane adams that we discussed in our episode about adams. And as part of her life at hull house, alice founded a well baby clinic