Ananpi Goshi was India’s first female physician - she is remembered today by Google.
The Indian female doctor would have celebrated her 153rd birthday today.
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Google has marked the occasion with a doodle, created by Bangalore-based artist Kashmira Sarode, which shows the doctor holding her medical degree from the women’s college of Pennsylvania in 1886.
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At the age of 21 she received her degree but only survived one year later as she died of tuberculosis.
Goshu was born in 1865 in India and was married in an arranged marriage at the age of 9.
She was the first woman of Indian origin to study and graduate with a two-year diploma in medicine in the United States. She is also believed to be the first Indian woman to set foot on American soil.
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Her husband encouraged her to study medicine. Ananpi travelled to New York in 1881 and wroteto the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, asking to be admitted to their medical programme. She was accepted.She returned to India in 1886 and died a year later.