Dr. Mary Dixon Jones was the first person in America to perform a total hysterectomy for myoma (a tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus. Read more about her accomplishments: NLM_NIH WomensHistoryMonth
Dr. Mary Dixon Jones was the first person in America to propose and perform a total hysterectomy for myoma of the uterus.
Mary Amanda Dixon was born in Maryland in 1828, to Noah Dixon and Sally Turner. Her family had made good money in the shipbuilding industry, and were able to pay for a good education for her. She graduated from Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1845, and stayed on to teach physiology and literature for four years as professor. She also began studying medicine, informally apprenticed to Dr. Henry F. Askew, president of the American Medical Association.
Although she maintained a successful private practice between 1862 and 1872, earning substantially more than many male physicians in New York in some years, she decided to go back to school at the age of 44, enrolling at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1872. As a practicing physician in Brooklyn she had seen patients with complicated and distressing gynecological problems that she was unsure how to treat.
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