WALKER,MARY,B., MD AND THE PIONEERING USE OF PROSTIGMIN TO TREAT MYASTHENIA-GRAVIS

In an era when women were not admitted to the University of Edinburgh and when England's first female physician (Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1836-1917) had to venture to Paris, France, to earn her M.D. in 1870, the career of Mary Broadfoot Walker (Figure 1) (1888-1974) stands out for truly remarkable achievement. She is credited with making the mos t significant discovery in medical therapeutic within the British empi re.