Laura Martínez de Carvajal, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Cuban physician
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About Laura Martínez de Carvajal
- Laura Martínez de Carvajal (1869–1941) was the first female doctor in Cuba.
- She was the oldest daughter of a rich Spanish family, and learned to read and write at age four and finished high school at age thirteen.
- Because she was a woman, when she studied medicine she was not able to dissect corpses at the same time as her male classmates, but had to do so by herself on Saturday and Sunday.
- She graduated in medicine at age 19 in 1889, at the University of Havana.
- She also married in July 1889.
- She worked as an ophthalmologist; her husband, Dr.
- Enrique López Veitía, also worked as such and she became his chief assistant and cared for his patients when he could not.
- As well, she collaborated with him on many papers and three volumes of "Clinical Ophthalmology." She had seven children.
- Her husband died of tuberculosis in 1910 and she died of tuberculosis in 1941, at age 72.
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