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Alice Woodby McKane
1865–1948
United States
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Alice Woodby McKane (1865– 6 March 1948) was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history.
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