Erased

Despite being accepted as an equal colleague by her peers during the 11th century, people later in the renaissance period took issue with the notion of a woman writing and publishing scholarly studies. Scholars decided to reprint Trotula’s medical journals, only this time, her name was stricken out and replaced with that of a man’s, a distasteful attempt to camouflage the talented woman who wrote them.

Dr. James Barry: The First Irish Surgeon to Perform a Successful Caesarian Section in Africa

Ireland-born Dr. James Miranda Steuart Barry was a military surgeon under the British Army who served in various capacities in many territories of the British Empire and ultimately was in charge of military hospitals, earning the rank of Inspector General in 1857, the second-highest medical rank in the service.