Bryant, Alice Gertrude (c. 1862–1942)

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Bryant, Alice Gertrude (c. 1862–1942)

American surgeon and inventor. Born c. 1862 in Boston, Massachusetts; died July 25, 1942, in Boston.

After graduating from Vassar College (1885) and the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary (1890), became one of the 1st two women, with Florence West Duckering, to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons (1914); worked as an ear, nose, and throat specialist; a one-time engineering student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combined medicine and engineering and invented 3 medical devices: the tonsil-separator, tongue depressor, and bone-gripping forceps; was a member of more than 50 scientific and humanitarian organizations.

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