Elmina M. Roys Gavitt

Elmina M. Roys Gavitt
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Elmina M. Roys September 8, 1828 Fletcher, Vermont, U.S.
Died	August 25, 1898 (aged 69)
Alma mater	Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia
Occupations	physician medial journal editor
Spouse	Elnathan Corrington Gavitt ​ ​ (m. 1876; died 1896)​

Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (née, Roys; after marriage, Roys Gavitt or Roys-Gavitt; September 8, 1828 – August 25, 1898) was an American physician who was the founder and first editor of The Woman's Medical Journal, the first scientific monthly journal published to forward the interests exclusively of women physicians.^[1]

Gavitt was the first woman physician in Toledo, Ohio,^[2] arriving there to practice after graduation from medical school. She was characterized as having great vision and high ideals for women in medicine. It was because of the need for means of communication between the widely scattered women then practicing medicine that this publication, which was the first scientific monthly medical journal for medical women, was founded. Because of that need, Gavitt became its editor.^[3]