Ella Ware, Md, the Country
“NO NIGHT WAS EVER TOO DARK OR ROAD TOO LONG FOR HER”: ELLA WARE, M.D., THE COUNTRY DOC A STATE-EDUCATED WOMAN PRACTICING MEDICINE IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY RURAL TEXAS ___________ A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of History Sam Houston State University ___________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts ___________ by Kassie M. Dixon December, 2016 “NO NIGHT WAS EVER TOO DARK OR ROAD TOO LONG FOR HER”: ELLA WARE, M.D., THE COUNTRY DOC A STATE-EDUCATED WOMAN PRACTICING MEDICINE IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY RURAL TEXAS by Kassie M. Dixon ___________ APPROVED: Nancy E. Baker, PhD Committee Director Rosanne E. Barker, PhD Committee Member Thomas H. Cox, PhD Committee Member Abbey Zink, PhD Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences ABSTRACT Dixon, Kassie M., “No night was ever too dark or road too long for her”: Ella Ware, M.D., The Country Doc, a state-educated woman practicing medicine in early 20th- Century rural Texas.” Master of Arts (History), December, 2016, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. Around the turn of the twentieth century, women carved out paths for themselves as physicians in the young field of modern medicine in Texas, graduating at a rate of about one per year from the state’s first medical school, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). Little research on these women exists. In fact, the majority of work on women physicians in the history of medicine concentrates on the urban Northeastern United States, the location of the country’s first medical schools to admit women.
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