1942–2019
Biography · Medicine
Mary Seacole
1805–1881
Jamaica / United Kingdom
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Biography
Seacole used Caribbean and European medical knowledge to treat sick and wounded soldiers, funding and running her own “British Hotel” near the Crimean front lines.
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1904–1950
1856–1931