Ogino Ginko
Ogino Ginko was the first licensed and practicing woman physician of western medicine in Japan.
Ogino was born in Musashi province . She was married at the age ofto the son of the first director of Ashikaga Bank. She soon divorced after contracting gonorrhoea from her husband. After the embarrassment of having to visit male doctors with what was considered a shameful disease, she resolved that she would become a doctor to help women in similar circumstances. After graduating from Tokyo Womens Normal School , she entered Juntendo University, which was at that time a private medical academy with an allmale student body. Despite prejudice and much hardship, she graduated in 1882, and after numerous petitions, was finally allowed to take her medical practitioners examination in 1885.
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