Elizabeth D A Cohen

Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Cohen (February 22, 1820 – May 28, 1921) was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana in the United States. She was born in New York to David and Phoebe (Magnus) Cohen of England. She married Dr. Aaron Cohen in New York. Following the death of her first son she attended Penn Medical University in Philadelphia, from which she graduated in 1857. Her thesis was titled "Prolapsus Uteri". For thirty years from 1857 to 1887, she cared for the people of the French Quarter of New Orleans in a period which was marked by periodic epidemics of yellow fever and smallpox. Dr. Cohen died in Louisiana at the age of 101. She is buried at Gates of Prayer Cemetery in New Orleans.