Who was Harriet Hunt as noted in the nonfiction book, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses?

Harriet Hunt was one of America's first trained female doctors. She became interested in medicine during the illness of a family member and worked for a while with a husband-wife "doctor team (such teams were very common at the time), before starting her own practice. Hunt did not undertake formal training until later in her career. Thus, she represents how many women in American practiced medicine before the gendered professionalization of the industry. As a lay practitioner, Hunt represents the countless women who practiced medicine in their communities through received knowledge. Harriet Hunt also represents the difficulties and discrimination women faced when seeking professional medical training. Hunt was initially admitted to Harvard Medical School, but her acceptance was revoked after students threatened to riot if she and other recently-admitted black students attended. Instead, Hunt received her training at a sectarian school, thus illustrating how medical education in the United States has been traditionally stratified along gender, racial, and classist lines.