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Health Care

                     Lenape Birthing Practices, ca. 1000 to 1650, an illustration of a menstrual hut and other Lenape practices. 

c. 1850s   Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), an internationally celebrated reformer of care for the mentally ill. 

c. 1901   Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901), heroic nurse who lost her life in the battle to eradicate yellow fever. 

c. 1932   Rita Sapiro Finkler (1888-1968), path-breaking physician and pioneering endocrinologist. 

1937   Constitution and Platform of the Sterilization League of New Jersey, 1937. 

c. 1960s   Lena Frances Edwards, MD (1849-1941), physician and presidential Medal of Freedom honoree.

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