CarveHerName on Nostr: #OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the ...
#OnThisDay, 26 Jan 1961, Dr Janet Travell is appointed as the Physician to the President of the USA. The role includes being the director of the White House Medical Unit. Travell was the first woman to hold the post.
She specialised in the treatment of skeletal muscle pain, and developed the ice spray still in use in sports medicine today.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInMedicine #Histodons
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