THREAD: We& #39;ve created a short #ThrowbackTuesday thread to celebrate women from history who have had a huge impact on health/medicine https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏" title="Clapping hands sign" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌍" title="Earth globe europe-africa" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe europe-africa"> Grab a coffee and take a break while you read/watch, and take your mind off the current climate for a little while! #NOVID #CovidFreeContent

*There are millions of incredible women we could have included in this thread, but these are a few we thought you might not know or just want to find out more about!

Florence Nightingale: The founder of modern nursing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-97fnUAbyo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: The first female doctor to qualify in England.

http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/elizabethgarrettanderson">https://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughtto...

Rebecca Lee Crumpler: The first African-American woman to become a medical doctor in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBl5OKfpWl8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Marie Curie: Conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjGrVVXuvU">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Barbara McClintock: Discovered mobile genetic elements, or "jumping genes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHho1c-EbTY">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Helen O. Dickens: The first African American woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons.

https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_82.html">https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physician...