Edith E. Nicholls, from the 1919 yearbook of Smith College
Born
September 29, 1892
Cleveland, Ohio
Died
March 12, 1978 (aged 85)
Alachua, Florida
Other names
Edith Stainsby
Occupation(s)
Physician, medical researcher
Edith Evelyn Nicholls Stainsby (September 29, 1892[1] – March 12, 1978) was an American physician and medical researcher.
Early life and education
Nicholls was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Mark Mitchell Nicholls and Elizabeth Jane Frees Nicholls. Her father was born in England and owned the Nicholls Tubing Factory.[1][2] She graduated from
Smith College in 1919,[3] and earned degrees in public health and child psychology at
Johns Hopkins University.[4] She earned her medical degree at the
Yale School of Medicine in 1926.[5][6]
Nicholls was chief of the arthritis clinic at
Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania from 1940 to 1943, and head of pediatrics at Geisinger from 1943 to 1950.[12][13] She was appointed director of the
Montour County Well-Baby Clinic in 1952.[14] In 1964 she became president of the
Soroptimist Club of Montour County.[15]
"The Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with an Injectable Form of
Bee Venom" (1938, with Jacques Kroner, Robert M. Lintz, Marion Tyndall, and Leonora Andersen)[27]
"A Study of the Organisms Reovered from Filtrates of Cultures of Hemolytic Streptococci" (1938)[28]
"The incidence of a normal spinal fluid in acute poliomyelitis" (1950)[33]
Personal life
Nicholls married fellow physician Wendell J. Stainsby in 1928, in Toronto. They had a son, Wendell, and a daughter, Gail. Her husband died in 1969.[34] She moved to Florida in 1973, and died in
Gainesville, Florida in 1978, in her eighties.[35]
References
^
abSome sources give 1897 or 1898 as her birth year; 1892 is the year given on her 1920 application for a U.S. passport, via Ancestry.
^
abStainsby, Wendell J., and Edith E. Nicholls. "Technic for the isolation of streptococci." The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 17, no. 6 (1932): 530-538.
^Nicholls, Edith E. "The Persistence of Streptococcus scarlatinae in the Throat of Convalescent Scarlet Fever Patients." American Journal of Hygiene 7 (1927): 84-8.
Edith E. Nicholls, from the 1919 yearbook of Smith College
Born
September 29, 1892
Cleveland, Ohio
Died
March 12, 1978 (aged 85)
Alachua, Florida
Other names
Edith Stainsby
Occupation(s)
Physician, medical researcher
Edith Evelyn Nicholls Stainsby (September 29, 1892[1] – March 12, 1978) was an American physician and medical researcher.
Early life and education
Nicholls was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Mark Mitchell Nicholls and Elizabeth Jane Frees Nicholls. Her father was born in England and owned the Nicholls Tubing Factory.[1][2] She graduated from
Smith College in 1919,[3] and earned degrees in public health and child psychology at
Johns Hopkins University.[4] She earned her medical degree at the
Yale School of Medicine in 1926.[5][6]
Nicholls was chief of the arthritis clinic at
Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania from 1940 to 1943, and head of pediatrics at Geisinger from 1943 to 1950.[12][13] She was appointed director of the
Montour County Well-Baby Clinic in 1952.[14] In 1964 she became president of the
Soroptimist Club of Montour County.[15]
"The Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with an Injectable Form of
Bee Venom" (1938, with Jacques Kroner, Robert M. Lintz, Marion Tyndall, and Leonora Andersen)[27]
"A Study of the Organisms Reovered from Filtrates of Cultures of Hemolytic Streptococci" (1938)[28]
"The incidence of a normal spinal fluid in acute poliomyelitis" (1950)[33]
Personal life
Nicholls married fellow physician Wendell J. Stainsby in 1928, in Toronto. They had a son, Wendell, and a daughter, Gail. Her husband died in 1969.[34] She moved to Florida in 1973, and died in
Gainesville, Florida in 1978, in her eighties.[35]
References
^
abSome sources give 1897 or 1898 as her birth year; 1892 is the year given on her 1920 application for a U.S. passport, via Ancestry.
^
abStainsby, Wendell J., and Edith E. Nicholls. "Technic for the isolation of streptococci." The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 17, no. 6 (1932): 530-538.
^Nicholls, Edith E. "The Persistence of Streptococcus scarlatinae in the Throat of Convalescent Scarlet Fever Patients." American Journal of Hygiene 7 (1927): 84-8.