GRIFFITH, Mary (1772 – 1846)
1772 – 1846
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1826 CE
#11415
Observations on the May-Bug, and its ravages on plum and other trees, and also on the means of preventing the mischief.
Griffth was probably the first American woman to publish in the sciences outside of materia medica and childcare. This article was probably her earliest non-geological publication. See Robt S. Cox, "A spontaneous flow…
1836 CE
#11430
Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.
The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision…
1838 CE
#11431
Barn-Yard rhymes; showing what opinions the turkey, the cock, the goose, and the duck, enterain of allopathia, homopathia, electro-galvanism and the animalcule doctrines.
A critique of medical practice and procedures in 80 pages of rhymed couplets voiced by farmyard animals. Mary Griffith, who published these satirical poems anonymously, dedicated the work to the Philadelphia physician…