MAUDE ELIZABETH SEYMOUR ABBOTT (1869-1940): THE FIRST SYSTEMATIZATION OF CONGENITAL CARDIAC DISEASE AND GREAT ARTERIES (1901-1936)
Maude Abbott (1969-1940) is one of the first female doctors in Canada, who went from assistant curator to outstanding pathologist and pediatric cardiologist of the twentieth century. From 1901 to 1936, she collected and systematized a huge clinical and pathological materials about all known congenital cardiac disease (CCD). The top of her scientific work was “Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease” (1936), which laid the foundations of the clinical pathology of CCD and influenced the development and implementation of the first operations in CCD (Gross R., Hubbard J., 1938; Blalock A., Taussig H., Thomas V., 1944). The name of Maude Abbott can be put on a par with the greatest women of the twentieth century - M. SkЄodowska, S. Kovalevskaya, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and etc., who's life and activity have become an example for thousands of women around the world.