title: [Herminia Franco Espinoza (1891-1988). The first woman physician of Puebla and veteran of the Mexican Revolution].
abstract: Herminia Franco-Espinoza was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the "Colegio del Estado de Puebla", Mexico. She was born in Chietla, Puebla, in 1891, and was daughter of Professor Felipe Franco-Pacheco and Zeferina Espinoza-Nape. Herminia concluded her professional studies in 1915 and graduated in 1917. During the 1910 attack to the house of the Serdán family in Puebla, she provided medical care to the first injured while she was a voluntary practitioner at the Hospital de San Pedro. She participated in the signing of the anti-reelectionist letter of the group "Luz y Progreso", headed by Aquiles Serdán. Thereafter, she moved to Mexico City and established at Plaza de la Constitución 37, where she opened a medical office. In 1920 she undertook a course on gynecology and obstetrics and child welfare at the National University of Mexico. In 1937 she traveled to Paris to undertake a course on Gynecology and Obstetrics and Pediatrics at L'Hôpital Broca, L'Hôpital Baudelóc and L'Hôpital des Enfants Malades. She retired in 1965 when she completed 50 years of professional practice. On 1970 she was recognized as a Veteran of the Mexican Revolution. Dr. Franco was part of the group of women who at the beginning of the last century pioneered in Mexico women's participation in mexican medicine.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Celular y Tisular, Universidad Panamericana y Departamento de Patología Quirúrgica, Centro Médico ABC, México D.F., México. cortiz@abchospital.com
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Hidalgo
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D008800:Mexico; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000266:history*; D014857:Warfare