Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall

Mary Anderson (Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall, 1837 – 1910) was a physician and one of the members of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Biography

Mary Anderson was born on 17 January 1837 at Bondie, Banffshire, in Scotland.

Anderson began her medical training at the University of Edinburgh. When in 1872 the University of Edinburgh decided that women medical students would not be awarded a degree, Anderson continued her studies in Paris.

In 1879 she received her medical doctorate from the Faculté de médecine de Paris, where she wrote her thesis on mitral stenosis and its higher frequency in women than in men ("Du rétrécissement mitral : sa fréquence plus grande chez la femme que chez l'homme.").