Lucila Gamero de Medina
Lucila Gamero de Medina was a Honduran romantic novelist. She was the first woman in Honduras to produce literary work and in Central America to publish novels. Critic and writer Luis Marn Otero called her the grand dame of Honduran letters. She was trained as a physician and pharmacist and though prevented from studying at the university was awarded a diploma of Medicine and Surgery from the dean of the Faculty of Medicine. She headed a hospital and served as a health inspector in her native department. In addition to her medical and literary efforts, Gamero was an active feminist and suffragette, attending conferences and participating in the founding of the Comit Femenino Hondureo.
Lucila Gamero Moncada was born onJune 1873 in Danl, Honduras to Manuel Gamero and Camila Moncada. She completed her secondary education at the Colegio La Educacin and wanted to study medicine abroad but was prevented from doing so. Her father, who was a doctor, taught her medicine and she practiced as both a physician and pharmacist, taking over her fathers clinic and running the family pharmacy. She later received a diploma of Medicine and Surgery from the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Manuel G. Zuniga. In 1924, she was appointed to head the Hospital de Sangre in Danl and from 1930 served as the health inspector of the El Paraso Department.
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