Marie-Anne Victoire Boivin was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer. Madame Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century.
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Marie-Anne Victoire Boivin was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer. Madame Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century. Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and became highly influential.
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FranceCategory
Doctors
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Doctor
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deceased
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Lived 1773 to 1841 · aged 68
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