BREWSTER, Miss Cora Belle

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Dr. Cora Belle Brewster was born in Almond, New York on September 6, 1859.  She attended Alfred University and became a teacher in Smethport, Pennsylvania.  Next, Cora Belle attended Northwestern University, where she decided to change career paths and went into business as a purchasing agent.  A few years later, when she moved to Baltimore, Cora Belle began the study of medicine that led her to become a doctor.  After starting at the Medical College for Women in Baltimore, she decided to move to Boston to study at The College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her training also included a stint at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

As Dr. Cora Belle began her medical career in the mid-1880s, she established a joint practice in Baltimore with
 her sister Dr. Flora A. Brewster, another woman in A Woman of the Century.  At the end of that decade, they published the Baltimore Family Health Journal, which later became The Homeopathic Advocate and Health Journal.  In 1890, she became a gynecological surgeon at the new Maryland Homeopathic Hospital and Free Dispensary.

When Cora Belle spoke about "Heredity" at the 1895 Congress of Professional Women in Atlanta, The Alexandria Gazette published many quotes from her address.

By 1899, her sanitarium was at 1027 Madison Avenue in Baltimore.  The next June, she was in Washington, D.C. presenting a paper about "Reflex Ovarian Pain" at the annual conference of The American Institute of Homeopathy.  Cora Belle was prominent in her field, and the 1907 New York Tribune article called her "one of the foremost women physicians in the country."

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