12 Women That Have Contributed to Healthcare's History

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Across
  1. 4. discovered key insight for diabetes treatment
  2. 5. made groundbreaking discoveries on alzheimer's, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's, schizophrenia
  3. 8. first African American surgeon general
  4. 10. first known female physician, Greek doctor, penned oldest medicine book by a woman
  5. 11. first Native American woman to earn MD, opened a hospital in Waterhill Reserve
  6. 12. founded modern nursing, "lady with the lamp"
Down
  1. 1. won Boylston Prize for providing first reliable information about menstruation
  2. 2. ancient Egyptian physician, titled "Lady Overseer of Female Physicians"
  3. 3. first African American woman to earn MD, wrote "Book of Medical Discourses," cared for freedmen postwar
  4. 6. first female surgeon general & first Hispanic, became deputy director of National Institute of Health and Human Development
  5. 7. first American woman to earn MD degree
  6. 9. founded American Red Cross, "angel of the battlefield"