Caroline Latimer

Caroline Wormeley Latimer (1860 - c. 1930) was an American physiologist known for her studies of rigor mortis and the salivary glands, and her popular science writing, which was widely read by women and girls. Unusually, she attended medical school at the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore before she attended an undergraduate institution, and received her M.D. in 1890. She then studied for a bachelor's degree and master's degree in biology at Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated in 1896. She was then an instructor of biology at Goucher College until 1898, and a physician in Maryland until 1906. She was the associate editor of Appleton's Medical Dictionary beginning in 1915.