Martha Wollstein

Martha Wollstein (born Nov. 21, 1868, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 30, 1939, New York City) was an American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology. Wollstein graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1889. In 1890 she joined the staff of the Babies Hospital in New York City, where she was appointed pathologist in 1892. Her first experimental work involved infant diarrhea and confirmed earlier studies relating the dysentery bacillus...