Harriet Judd Sartain
{{short description|American physician}}
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| name = Harriet Judd Sartain
| image = HarrietJuddSartain1923.png
| alt = An older white woman with grey hair in an updo, wearing glasses and a lace-trimmed high-collared dress, her cheek resting on one hand
| caption = Harriet Judd Sartain, from a 1923 newspaper
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| birth_name = Harriet Amelia Judd
| birth_date = {{birth date|1830|02|03|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1923|02|08|1830|02|03|mf=y}}
| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
| occupation = Physician
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| relatives = John Sartain (father-in-law), Emily Sartain (sister-in-law}, William Sartain (brother-in-law), Harriet Sartain (niece)
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Harriet Amelia Judd Sartain (February 3, 1830 – February 8, 1923) was an American homeopathic physician who practiced in Philadelphia. She was one of the first three women admitted to the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1871.
Early life and education
Harriet Amelia Judd was born in Waterbury, Connecticut,{{Cite book |last=Janik |first=Erika |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cttmDwAAQBAJ&dq=Harriet+Judd+Sartain&pg=PA137 |title=Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine |date=2015-03-10 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-6111-4 |pages=137 |language=en}} the daughter of Thomas Judd and Eliza E. Jones Judd. She graduated from the American Hydropathic Institute in 1851, from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1853, and from the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati in 1854, one of the first women to complete medical training in a homeopathic program. Mary Gove Nichols and Harriet N. Austin were her mentors in the medical field.{{Cite book |last=Morantz |first=Regina Markell |title=Women's Bodies |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110976328.156/html |chapter=Making Women Modern: Middle Class Women and Health Reform in 19th Century America |date=2012-02-14 |pages=156–173 |publisher=K. G. Saur |isbn=978-3-11-097632-8 |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783110976328.156}}
Career
Sartain practiced homeopathic medicine in Philadelphia. She supported the founding the Philadelphia County Homeopathic Medical Society in 1866, and was elected the society's first woman member in 1870.{{Cite journal |last=Kirschmann |first=Anne Taylor |date=Fall 1999 |title=Adding Women to the Ranks, 1860–1890: A New View with a Homeopathic Lens |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44445289 |journal=Bulletin of the History of Medicine |volume=73 |issue=3 |pages=437 |doi=10.1353/bhm.1999.0120 |jstor=44445289 |pmid=10500338 |s2cid=43162003 |issn=0007-5140}}{{Cite book |last=Kirschmann |first=Anne Taylor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSoIGDKsVosC&dq=Harriet+Judd+Sartain&pg=PA83 |title=A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy |date=2004 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-3320-9 |pages=83 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1923-02-09 |title=Pioneer Woman Doctor is Dead |pages=5 |work=Standard-Speaker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111110954/pioneer-woman-doctor-is-dead/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1871 she was also admitted to the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the first three women accepted into that body (along with Harriet Schneider French and Mercy B. Jackson).{{Cite web |last=Perella |first=Chrissie |date=2013-10-15 |title=Early Women in Homeopathy: A Resource Guide |url=https://drexel.edu/legacy-center/blog/overview/2013/october/early-women-in-homeopathy-a-resource-guide/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=drexel.edu |language=en}} She was suggested for membership in the Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania in 1872.{{Cite journal |date=April 1872 |title=The Homeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyZNAAAAIAAJ&dq=Harriet+Judd+Sartain&pg=PA428 |journal=The Hahnemannian Monthly |volume=7 |pages=428}} In 1883 she founded and led the Women's Homeopathic Medical Club of Philadelphia.{{Cite web |last=Janik |first=Erika |date=March 5, 2014 |title=Pioneering Women in Medicine, an Illustrated History |url=https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/03/pioneering-women-in-medicine-an-illustrated-history.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press}} She retired from medical work for health reasons in 1889. She was also active in temperance and women's suffrage work.{{Cite news |date=1895-11-17 |title=Will Take a New Tack |pages=14 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111111369/will-take-a-new-tack/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Personal life and legacy
Harriet Judd married engraver Samuel Sartain in 1854. His sister Emily Sartain{{Cite book |last=Swinth |first=Kirsten |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Saa68GzVGpEC&dq=Harriet+Judd+Sartain&pg=PA41 |title=Painting Professionals: Women Artists & the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 |date=2001 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-0-8078-4971-2 |pages=41 |language=en}} and niece Harriet Sartain were noted artists associated with the Philadelphia School of Design for Women; his brother William Sartain and his father John Sartain were noted printers and engravers. Harriet and Samuel Sartain had three children together. Samuel Sartain died in 1906;{{Cite news |date=1906-12-21 |title=Samuel Sartain Dead |pages=7 |work=The Times-Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111110795/samuel-sartain-dead/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}} their son Edwin died in infancy, and their daughter Amy died in 1916; only son Paul survived her when she died in Philadelphia in 1923, soon after her 93rd birthday.{{Cite news |date=1923-02-09 |title=Dr. Harriet Judd Sartain Dies at Age of 93 |pages=27 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111029289/dr-harriet-judd-sartain-dies-at-age-of/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Sartain's papers are part of several Sartain family collections, especially at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania{{Cite web |title=Sartain Family Papers 1650 |url=http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/s/Sartain1650.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Historical Society of Pennsylvania}} and the Archives of American Art.{{Cite web |title=Sartain family papers, 1795-1944 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/sartain-family-papers-10786 |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |language=en}} The Harriet Judd Sartain Memorial Medical Scholarship at Bryn Mawr College was established by her son, and named in her memory.{{Cite book |last=Atwater |first=Edward C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q6KKEAAAQBAJ&dq=Harriet+Judd+Sartain+Memorial+Medical+Scholarship&pg=PA186 |title=Women Medical Doctors in the United States Before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2016 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-58046-571-7 |pages=186 |language=en}}
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Category:American women physicians