Harriet Amelia Judd Sartain (February 3, 1830 – February 8, 1923) was an American homeopathic physician who practiced in Philadelphia. She was one of the first three women admitted to the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1871.
Harriet Judd Sartain | |
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 Harriet Judd Sartain, from a 1923 newspaper | |
| Born | Harriet Amelia Judd February 3, 1830 Waterbury, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | February 8, 1923 (aged 93) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Relatives | John Sartain (father-in-law), Emily Sartain (sister-in-law}, William Sartain (brother-in-law), Harriet Sartain (niece) |
Early life and education
editHarriet Amelia Judd was born in Waterbury, Connecticut,[1] the daughter of Thomas Judd and Eliza E. Jones Judd. She graduated from the American Hydropathic Institute in 1851, from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1853, and from the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati in 1854, one of the first women to complete medical training in a homeopathic program. Mary Gove Nichols and Harriet N. Austin were her mentors in the medical field.[2]
Career
editSartain practiced homeopathic medicine in Philadelphia. She supported the founding the Philadelphia County Homeopathic Medical Society in 1866, and was elected the society's first woman member in 1870.[3][4][5] In 1871 she was also admitted to the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the first three women accepted into that body (along with Harriet Schneider French and Mercy B. Jackson).[6] She was suggested for membership in the Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania in 1872.[7] In 1883 she founded and led the Women's Homeopathic Medical Club of Philadelphia.[1][8] She retired from medical work for health reasons in 1889.[9] She was also active in temperance and women's suffrage work.[10]
Personal life and legacy
editHarriet Judd married engraver Samuel Sartain in 1854.[4] His sister Emily Sartain[11] and niece Harriet Sartain were noted artists associated with the Philadelphia School of Design for Women; his brother William Sartain and his father John Sartain were noted printers and engravers. Harriet and Samuel Sartain had three children together. Samuel Sartain died in 1906;[12] their son Edwin died in infancy, and their daughter Amy died in 1916; only son Paul survived her when she died in Philadelphia in 1923, soon after her 93rd birthday.[9]
Sartain's papers are part of several Sartain family collections, especially at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania[13] and the Archives of American Art.[14] The Harriet Judd Sartain Memorial Medical Scholarship at Bryn Mawr College was established by her son, and named in her memory.[15]
References
edit- ^ a b Janik, Erika (March 10, 2015). Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine. Beacon Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8070-6111-4.
- ^ Morantz, Regina Markell (February 14, 2012). "Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America". Women's Bodies. K. G. Saur. pp. 156–173. doi:10.1515/9783110976328.156. ISBN 978-3-11-097632-8.
- ^ Kirschmann, Anne Taylor (Fall 1999). "Adding Women to the Ranks, 1860–1890: A New View with a Homeopathic Lens". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 73 (3): 437. doi:10.1353/bhm.1999.0120. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44445289. PMID 10500338. S2CID 43162003.
- ^ a b Kirschmann, Anne Taylor (2004). A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy. Rutgers University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-8135-3320-9.
- ^ "Pioneer Woman Doctor is Dead". Standard-Speaker. February 9, 1923. p. 5. Retrieved October 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Perella, Chrissie (October 15, 2013). "Early Women in Homeopathy: A Resource Guide". drexel.edu. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ^ "The Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania". The Hahnemannian Monthly. 7: 428. April 1872.
- ^ Janik, Erika (March 5, 2014). "Pioneering Women in Medicine, an Illustrated History". Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ^ a b "Dr. Harriet Judd Sartain Dies at Age of 93". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 9, 1923. p. 27. Retrieved October 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Will Take a New Tack". Democrat and Chronicle. November 17, 1895. p. 14. Retrieved October 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Swinth, Kirsten (2001). Painting Professionals: Women Artists & the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930. UNC Press Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8078-4971-2.
- ^ "Samuel Sartain Dead". The Times-Tribune. December 21, 1906. p. 7. Retrieved October 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sartain Family Papers 1650". Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ^ "Sartain family papers, 1795-1944". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ^ Atwater, Edward C. (2016). Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Boydell & Brewer. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-58046-571-7.