title: [The first graduate woman physicians. On the 225th anniversary of the graduation from Halle of Dorothea Christian Erxleben (1715--1762)].
abstract: Recently the question of the first practising and graduated at a university lady-physicians has repeatedly been put and has differently been answered in world literature. In these cases English author referred to Elizabeth Blackwell graduated in Geneva in 1849, who as the first woman received the title of M. D. Including the continental Europe at least three lady-physicians rank before Elizabeth Backwell: Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Regina Josepha Henning-von Siebold and Charlotte Heiland-von Siebold. Recently the 225th day of promotion and examination of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, the first German lady-physician graduated in Halle in 1754, came round. This was the occasion to describe the stage of the development of this lady-physician on the basis of the remaining documents.
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005859:Germany, East; D049671:History, 18th Century; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Die erstern promovierten Arztinnen. Zum 225. Jahrestag der halleschen Graduierung von Dorothea Christian Erxleben (1715--1762).