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Caroline Wormeley Latimer (March 28, 1860 – 1933) was an American physiologist known for her studies of rigor mortis and the salivary glands, and her popular science writing, which was widely read by women and girls.

Early life

Latimer was born on March 28, 1860, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of English-American author Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer and Randolph Brandt Latimer. Her siblings included Ralph Randolph Latimer and James Brandt Latimer, who worked for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

Her paternal grandparents were Caroline (née Preble) Wormeley and Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, a native of Virginia who was an Admiral of the British navy. Her maternal aunts included nurse and author Katherine Prescott Wormeley and Ariana Randolph Wormeley, was married to the American lawyer and banker Daniel Sargent Curtis.

Career

Unusually, she attended medical school at the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore before she attended an undergraduate institution, and received her M.D. in 1890. She then studied for a bachelor's degree and master's degree in biology at Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated in 1896.

Following her graduation from Bryn Mawr, she became an instructor of biology at Goucher College until 1898, and a physician in Maryland until 1906. She was the associate editor of Appleton's Medical Dictionary beginning in 1915.

Latimer was the author of Girl and Woman. A Book for Mothers and Daughters, published by D. Appleton & Co. in New York in 1910.

References

1. ^ Times, Special To The New York (5 January 1904). "NOTED WOMAN WRITER DEAD.; Mrs. Mary E.W. Latimer, Authoress, Dies at Baltimore Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
2. Times, Special To The New York (13 January 1932). "RALPH RANDOLPH LATIMER; Member of Old Maryland Family Is Dead in Venice". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
3. Railway Signaling and Communications. Simmons-Boardman. 1908. p. 443. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
4. British Medical Journal. British Medical Association. 1893. p. 1001. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
5. Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn (2000-07-27). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203801451.
6. Vertinsky, Patricia Anne (1994). The Eternally Wounded Woman: Women, Doctors, and Exercise in the Late Nineteenth Century. University of Illinois Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780252063725. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

External links

• Girl and Woman. A Book for Mothers and Daughters, by Caroline Wormeley Latimer, M.D., M.A. (1915)
• Caroline Latimer at Find a Grave

• 1860 births
• 1933 deaths
• American women scientists
• American physiologists
• American women physiologists
• American women physicians
• Bryn Mawr College alumni