On This Day
1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued to direct operations of the hospital.
Born On This Day
1872 – Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (d. 1952)
Mary Engle Pennington (October 8, 1872 – December 27, 1952) was an American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer.
Early life and education
Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents were Henry and Sarah Malony Pennington. Shortly after her birth, her parents moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be closer to her mother’s Quaker relatives.[1][2] Her younger sister, Helen, was born in 1878.[1] Mary Pennington demonstrated an early interest in chemistry. She entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1890 and completed the requirements for a B.S. degree in chemistry with minors in botany and zoology in 1892. However, since the University of Pennsylvania did not grant degrees to women at this time, she was given a certificate of proficiency instead of a degree.[2]
Pennington received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1895. Her thesis was entitled “Derivatives of Columbium and Tantalum.”[1] From 1895–96 she was a university fellow in botany at her Alma Mater. She was a fellow in physiological chemistry at Yale in 1897–99, where she did research in physiological chemistry with Dr Lafayette Mendel and Dr Russell Chittenden.[1][2] In 1898 she founded the Philadelphia Clinical Laboratory.[3] In the same year, she accepted a position with the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania as Director of their Clinical Laboratory.She also served as a research worker in the department of hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania from 1898 to 1901, and was a bacteriologist with the Philadelphia Bureau of Health. In her position with the Bureau of Health, she was instrumental in improving sanitation standards for the handling of milk and milk products.[4]
FYI
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for December 28 December 28, 2024Picture of the day Satellite picture of the Etna volcano erupting in eastern Sicily (Italy) in December 2018.
- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for December 27 December 27, 2024Picture of the day The Seehornsee in the Berchtesgaden Alps. On the right the normal route to the Seehorn.
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