Augusta Stowe-Gullen belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Augusta Stowe-Gullen as Canadian physician and suffragette (1857–1943).
Augusta Stowe-Gullen was born at Mount Pleasant in 1857. Her recorded nationality is Canada. She trained at University of Toronto.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Recognition followed: Member of the Order of the British Empire (1935).
That the work was done from Canada matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen died in 1943, aged 86. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Member of the Order of the British Empire — 1935
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