1. Mary Scharlieb was the first female student of medicine at Madras Medical College.
19 Facts About Mary Scharlieb
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Mary Scharlieb returned to Madras and eventually lectured in London.
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Mary Scharlieb was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of a hospital in the UK and one of the most distinguished women in medicine of her generation.
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Aged 19, she met William Mary Scharlieb, "who was engaged in eating his dinners at the Middle Temple, preparatory to his call to the Bar and subsequent practice in Madras as a barrister".
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Mary Scharlieb persisted and eventually the marriage took place in December 1865, and the couple sailed for India almost at once.
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Mary Scharlieb set sail to return to England with her children, old enough by then to travel, in a small ship, her eyes fixed on a degree in medicine.
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Mary Scharlieb was accepted, and in 1879, in company with three other candidates for the first medical examination, she passed.
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Mary Scharlieb met with Queen Victoria who was curious about the status of Indian women and intrigued by Scharlieb's narrative.
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Mary Scharlieb was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of any general hospital in the UK.
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Mary Scharlieb began her private practice after returning again to England, on 21 May 1887, with five patients in the morning, at 75 Park Street, where she shared an office with her medical student son.
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Mary Scharlieb was a member of the Council of Obstetrics and Gynecological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, but as a woman was not permitted to participate in the running of the society or the election of officers.
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Mary Scharlieb offered to treat all officers' wives and Belgian women free of charge.
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Mary Scharlieb became Chairman of the Midwifery Committee of the Council of War Relief, and spent much of her time and remaining energies in its Maternity Hospital.
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Mary Scharlieb stated that "artificial contraceptives are wrong, morally, medically, rationally".
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Mary Scharlieb put in a powerful plea for the exercise of natural means of spacing the family.
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Mary Scharlieb spoke of divorce and her belief that it is unjust even to the guilty party, who, if a second union is contracted by the innocent partner, is "thereby prevented from making reparation and by this debarred from full repentance".
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Mary Scharlieb pleaded for the Church of England to strengthen and expand its own school system:.
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An important theme in Mary Scharlieb's writings was the importance of including a female point of view, in both medical and legislative arenas.
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Mary Scharlieb was concerned with the issues of "racial degeneration" and "social purity".