Mary J. Safford practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Mary J. Safford as American physician surgeon and feminist (1834-1891).
Mary J. Safford was born at Hyde Park in 1834.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Her posts were held at Boston University.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Mary J. Safford died in 1891, aged 57. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Boston University
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