Papers of Dr Alice Emilie Sanderson Clow (1875-1959)

The papers deal predominantly with Dr Sanderson Clow's work on dysmenorrhoea and allied subjects; most of the correspondence is from other doctors and health workers responding to her articles, lectures, and leaflets. There are also copies of her published articles and of manuscript drafts, texts of lectures, etc. There is one file of material relating to her involvement with the MWF Menopause investigation.

1875-1959

1 file

Alice Emilie Sanderson was born into the Sanderson wallpaper family, the eighth of eleven children. She took a BSc in biology at Bedford College, and subsequently, 1905, entered the London School of Medicine for Women, qualifying in 1908 and proceeding to the MD in 1915. Her first post was at the Belgrave Hospital for Children. In 1914 she joined Dr Eveline Cargill in practice at Cheltenham, where she worked for many years, including as medical inspector for Cheltenham Ladies' College. During the First World War Dr Sanderson served in the Women's Medical Unit attached to the RAMC, serving in Malta and Salonika and meeting Dr David Clow, whom she married after the war. They adopted two daughters. Dr Sanderson Clow returned to practice in Cheltenham, and during the 1920s produced a series of influential papers on dysmenorrhoea, its treatment by exercise, the hygiene of menstruational among schoolgirls, and also on its implications for occupational and industrial health. There is an obituary in The Medical Women