Marie Boivin

Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin (9 April 1773 – 16 May 1841) was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer.^[1]^[2] Mme Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century.^[3] Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years.^[4]

^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 43. ISBN 026215031X.
^ Beach, Frederick Converse (1904). The Encyclopedia Americana. New York: The Americana company.
^ Alic, Margaret (1986). Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. Beacon Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0807067307.^{[unreliable source?]}
^ Stanley, Autumn (1995). Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Rutgers University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0813521978.

[Ogilvie-1] Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. p. 43. ISBN 026215031X.

[Beach_1904-2] Beach, Frederick Converse (1904). The Encyclopedia Americana. New York: The Americana company.

[Alic-3] Alic, Margaret (1986). Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century. Beacon Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0807067307.^{[unreliable source?]}

[stanley-4] Stanley, Autumn (1995). Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. Rutgers University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0813521978.

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