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adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Another photo from the cemetery today. Dr. Milner was 26 years old at the time of her death. She was one of only 12 women who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1924. She died from streptococcic meningitis after an infection in her hand that she received during surgery at Children’s Hospital San Fransisco.

A headstone located in Cave Hill cemetery, in Louisville, KY. It’s inscribed: DOCTOR VIRGINIA HELM R. MILNER ONLY CHILD OF DOCTOR WM. LOWRY MILNER AND LENA RICHARDSON MILNER WHO GRADUATED FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT JUNE 1924 RESIDENT PHYSICIAN OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 1925-1926, WHERE SHE SACRIFICED HER BRILLIANT YOUNG LIFE IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY, JAN. 15.1926