A Look Back: Boss Women Of Modern Medicine

When you have a headache or something a little more serious like an infection, the natural remedy would be to pop an aspirin or take antibiotics. But there was a time when the modern cure-alls we know did not exist. Thankfully, there were those who made it their life’s work to discover medical advances for a better tomorrow. Quite a few of them were women.

Here are three genius women without whom modern medicine would not be what it is. And no doubt they would have worn scrub pants from Dickies, the premier provider of workwear for nearly 100 years.

Marie Curie

From humble beginnings as the daughter of a teacher, Curie left Poland for Paris in 1891 at age 24, taking her introductory knowledge of science with her. There her education flourished, she discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium with her husband and became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics—only to outdo herself and win a second Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now if that isn’t girl power, we don’t what is, so channel this brilliant mind wearing maroon-hued cotton pants.

Florence Nightingale

We know her as the Mother of Modern Nursing, but to the wounded soldiers whose lives she helped save, she was the “Lady with the Lamp.” History says she turned down the proposal of a wealthy gentleman to pursue her passion for caring for the ill. She did just that—and then some—by vastly improving sanitation and health care conditions in hospitals during the 19th century Crimean war. Channel this benevolent muse as you make the rounds wearing cream-colored pleated scrubs.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Society was dead set against her, but that didn’t stop Elizabeth Blackwell from becoming a doctor. She persevered and became the first woman to graduate from an American medical school in 1847. But Blackwell didn’t stop there—she opened up a private practice in New York, made healthcare available to women who were less fortunate and set up a women’s medical school. Follow in the footsteps of this pioneer wearing baby blue cargo Dickies.

Even if you’re not a doctor, let these women inspire you to be a trailblazer in your own right. And if you so happen to have aspirations of the medical kind, Dikies pants will be waiting for you.

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