See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: Name appears as “Pickens, N. A.” and “Nancy E. Miller Pickins”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 363.
See also: Trimble, Marshall. Arizona: a panoramic history of a frontier State. Doubleday, 1977, p. 293: “Dr. Nancy Miller Pickens was the first woman to practice in Phoenix, specializing in ‘diseases of women and children.’ In 1883 she was accused of performing an abortion. Dr. Pickens apparently moved on, as nothing more was ever heard of her.”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 363.
See also: Trimble, Marshall. Arizona: a panoramic history of a frontier State. Doubleday, 1977, p. 293: “Dr. Nancy Miller Pickens was the first woman to practice in Phoenix, specializing in ‘diseases of women and children.’ In 1883 she was accused of performing an abortion. Dr. Pickens apparently moved on, as nothing more was ever heard of her.”
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 5, page(s) 202; volume 12, page(s) 20
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