Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

Born in 1859, Anna M. Galbraith was an American physician, best remembered for writing popular health books for women. Library and book records identify her as the author of The Four Epochs of Woman's Life, a study of women's health and hygiene that became one of her best-known works.

Galbraith wrote at a time when medical information was often hard for general readers to access. Her books helped translate professional knowledge into practical guidance, especially on women's health, marriage, and family life. That combination of medical training and plainspoken explanation made her work distinctive for its era.

She died in 1923. Although she is not widely known today, her writing offers a glimpse into how women physicians helped shape public health education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.