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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.