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A photo of Dr. Hu King Eng, from Fuzhou City, fujian, the first Foochow woman doctor in the world.
born 1865 in Fuzhou, China and died in 1929 in Singapore.
She was educated in the USA, Philadelphia Women's College of Medicine, and was a physician. she was also the second ethnic Chinese woman to attend university in the USA. She came from a Christian family in Fuzhou and it was through their connections with Christian missionaries that she was able to study in the USA.
Her medical career is well documented as she was treated as a celebrity by American media due to the lack of even American women studying medicine at the time.
She worked in the USA for a while but later went back to work at the Woolston Memorial Hospital in Fuzhou City.
She worked hard to iprove medical practices in Fujian and was instrumental in using running water in modern toilets to improve sanitary practices in the city.
She later opened a Medical College for Chinese women.
Sources: Notable Women of Modern China (2005, originally 1912) by Margaret E. Burton; “The First Chinese Woman Doctor,” a Sept. 14, 1895 article in Christchurch’s The Star, Women of China
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