January 25, 2024
Pa: Pittsburgh 1917 Dr. Amelia Dranga Cover + Letter, Famous Female Physician
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Hand written 3 page letter about a patient. F-VF+Amelia Dranga(1866 — May 27, 1933) "An American medical doctor and public health educator, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born in Otsego, Wisconsin, and raised in California, the daughter of Niels G. O. Dranga and Emily Ogden Dranga. Both of her parents were born in Norway. Her younger sisters Mary Dranga Campbell and Wilhelmina Dranga Campbell both found careers in blind education. Her brother Theodore Dranga married artist Helen Thomas Dranga. She was educated at the California State Normal School in Los Angeles, and at Radcliffe College. She earned her medical degree at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She taught school in Los Angeles before going east to medical school. From its founding in 1900 until her death 33 years later, she was the medical director of the Pittsburgh Milk and Ice Fund Association, and ran a popular twice-weekly baby clinic as part of that work.She served on the executive board of the American Birth Control League's Pennsylvania branch. She lectured on subjects from child nutrition to eugenics to sex education to Pittsburgh community groups. She was also president of the Woman's Medical Society of Western Pennsylvania.[8] She was one of the women doctors who planned a hospital for women and children in Pittsburgh in 1902.[9] "I do not think
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