Marie Boivin
Physician
1773 – 1841
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Who was Marie Boivin?
Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer. Mme Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century. Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years.
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- Born
- Apr 9, 1773
Montreuil - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- May 16, 1841
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on July 23, 2013
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