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Edith E. Nicholls
A young white woman with dark wavy hair parted on the side
Edith E. Nicholls, from the 1919 yearbook of Smith College
BornSeptember 29, 1892
Cleveland, Ohio
DiedMarch 12, 1978 (aged 85)
Alachua, Florida
Other namesEdith Stainsby
Occupation(s)Physician, medical researcher

Edith Evelyn Nicholls Stainsby (September 29, 1892[1] – March 12, 1978) was an American physician and medical researcher.

Early life and education

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Nicholls was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Mark Mitchell Nicholls and Elizabeth Jane Frees Nicholls. Her father was born in England and owned the Nicholls Tubing Factory.[1][2] She graduated from Smith College in 1919,[3] and earned degrees in public health and child psychology at Johns Hopkins University.[4] She earned her medical degree at the Yale School of Medicine in 1926.[5][6]

Career

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Nicholls was a pediatric specialist,[7] with particular expertise in rheumatoid arthritis and polio.[8] She was on the staff of the Children's Bureau in Washington, D.C. She lived in China as a young woman, and spoke about her experiences there to women's groups afterward.[9] She taught at Cornell University Medical College from 1927 to 1937.[6][10][11]

Nicholls was chief of the arthritis clinic at Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania from 1940 to 1943, and head of pediatrics at Geisinger from 1943 to 1950.[12][13] She was appointed director of the Montour County Well-Baby Clinic in 1952.[14] In 1964 she became president of the Soroptimist Club of Montour County.[15]

Publications

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Nicholls published her research in academic journals in the 1920s and 1930s, including Journal of Comparative Psychology,[16][17] American Journal of Epidemiology,[18] Journal of Clinical Investigation,[19][20][21] Archives of Internal Medicine,[22] Journal of Experimental Medicine,[23] Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine,[24] Journal of Bacteriology,[25] Journal of the American Medical Association,[26] Annals of Internal Medicine,[27] and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.[28]

  • "A Study of the Spontaneous Activity of the Guinea Pig" (1922)[16]
  • "The relation between fatigue and the susceptibility of guinea pigs to infections of type I pneumococcus" (1922, with Reynold A. Spaeth)[18]
  • "Performances in Certain Mental Tests of Children Classified as Underweight and Normal" (1923)[17]
  • "Studies in Scarlet Fever III: Infections with Streptococcus Scarlatinae in Persons with Scarlatinal Antitoxic Immunity" (1926)[19]
  • "The Persistence of Streptococcus scarlatinae in the Throat of Convalescent Scarlet Fever Patients." (1927)[29]
  • "The Bacteriology of the Blood and Joints in Chronic Infectious Arthritis" (1929, with Russell L. Cecil, and Wendell J. Stainsby)[22]
  • "Bacteriology of the Blood and Joins in Rheumatic Fever" (1929, with Russell L. Cecil and Wendell J. Stainsby)[23]
  • "Streptococcal Agglutinins in Chronic Infectious Arthritis" (1931, with Wendell J. Stainsby)[20]
  • "Technic for the Isolation of Streptococci" (1932, with Wendell J. Stainsby)[24]
  • "Further Studies on the Agglutination Reaction in Chronic Arthritis" (1933, with Wendell J. Stainsby)[21]
  • "The Clinical Significance of the Erythrocytic Sedimentation Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis" (1933 with Wendell J. Stainsby)[30]
  • "The Incidence and Biological Characteristics of the Hemolytic Bacillus Coli in the Stools of Healthy Individuals" (1934)[31]
  • "Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Hyperthermia Produced by a High-Frequency Current" (1934, with K. G. Hansson and Wendell J. Stainsby)[32]
  • "The Classification of a Group of Escherichia Isolated from the Intestinal Tract of Patients with Ulcerative Colitis" (1935, with H. P. Saltz)[25]
  • "Malarial Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis" (1935, with Russell L. Cecil and Constance Friess)[26]
  • "The Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with an Injectable Form of Bee Venom" (1938, with Jacques Kroner, Robert M. Lintz, Marion Tyndall, and Leonora Andersen)[27]
  • "A Study of the Organisms Reovered from Filtrates of Cultures of Hemolytic Streptococci" (1938)[28]
  • "The incidence of a normal spinal fluid in acute poliomyelitis" (1950)[33]

Personal life

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Nicholls married fellow physician Wendell J. Stainsby in 1928, in Toronto. They had a son, Wendell, and a daughter, Gail. Her husband died in 1969.[34] She moved to Florida in 1973, and died in Gainesville, Florida in 1978, in her eighties.[35]

References

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  1. ^ a b Some sources give 1897 or 1898 as her birth year; 1892 is the year given on her 1920 application for a U.S. passport, via Ancestry.
  2. ^ "Wife Wrongfully Holds Property". The Buffalo Commercial. 1909-06-03. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Smith College (1919). Class of 1919. College Archives Smith College Libraries. Smith College. p. 71.
  4. ^ The Johns Hopkins University Circular. Johns Hopkins University. 1927. p. 65.
  5. ^ "Department of Pediatrics Opens at Geisinger". Mount Carmel Item. 1943-07-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b "Conference to Hear of Heart Ailments". The Daily Item. 1948-04-02. p. 14. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Dr. Edith Nicholls Gives Timely and Instructive Address Before Local PTA". The Danville Morning News. 1948-11-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Polio is Topic of Dr. Edith Nicholls At B.P.W. Dinner". The Morning Press. 1953-04-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "China of Yesterday and Today". The Danville Morning News. 1952-02-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Announcement of the Medical College for 1932-33". Cornell University Official Publication. 24 (3): 22. 1932-08-01.
  11. ^ "Delphians Hear Speech by Dr. Edith Stainsby". The Morning Press. 1939-10-25. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Dr. Edith Nicholls to Leave Geisinger". Shamokin News-Dispatch. 1950-02-21. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Dr. Edith Nicholls to Practice Here". The Danville Morning News. 1950-02-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Dr. Nicholls to Head Clinic". The Danville Morning News. 1952-02-22. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Dr. Edith Nicholls Heads Soroptimists". The Daily Item. 1964-06-29. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b Nicholls, E. E. (August 1922). "A Study of the Spontaneous Activity of the Guinea Pig". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2 (4): 303–330. doi:10.1037/h0074475. ISSN 0093-4127.
  17. ^ a b Nicholls, E. E. (June 1923). "Performances in Certain Mental Tests of Children Classified as Underweight and Normal". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 3 (3): 147–179. doi:10.1037/h0073303. ISSN 0093-4127.
  18. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E., and Reynold A. Spaeth. "The relation between fatigue and the susceptibility of guinea pigs to infections of type I pneumococcus" American Journal of Epidemiology 2, no. 5 (1922): 527-535.
  19. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E. "Studies in Scarlet Fever: III. Infections with Streptococcus Scarlatinae in Persons with Scarlatinal Antitoxic Immunity." The Journal of Clinical Investigation 3, no. 2 (1926): 411-422.
  20. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E., and Wendell J. Stainsby. "Streptococcal agglutinins in chronic infectious arthritis" The Journal of Clinical Investigation 10, no. 2 (1931): 323-335.
  21. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E., and Wendell J. Stainsby. "Further studies on the agglutination reaction in chronic arthritis." The Journal of Clinical Investigation 12, no. 3 (1933): 505-518.
  22. ^ a b Cecil, Russell L. (1929-05-01). "The Bacteriology of the Blood and Joints in Chronic Infectious Arthritis". Archives of Internal Medicine. 43 (5): 571. doi:10.1001/archinte.1929.00130280002001. ISSN 0003-9926.
  23. ^ a b Cecil, Russell L.; Nicholls, Edith E.; Stainsby, Wendell J. (1929-11-01). "Bacteriology of the Blood and Joins in Rheumatic Fever". Journal of Experimental Medicine. 50 (5): 617–642. doi:10.1084/jem.50.5.617. ISSN 1540-9538. PMC 2131654. PMID 19869651.
  24. ^ a b Stainsby, Wendell J., and Edith E. Nicholls. "Technic for the isolation of streptococci." The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 17, no. 6 (1932): 530-538.
  25. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E.; Saltz, Herman P. (March 1936). "The Classification of a Group of Escherichia Isolated from the Intestinal Tract of Patients with Ulcerative Colitis". Journal of Bacteriology. 31 (3): 313–319. doi:10.1128/jb.31.3.313-319.1936. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 543716. PMID 16559889.
  26. ^ a b Cecil, Russell L. (1935-10-12). "Malarial Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis". Journal of the American Medical Association. 105 (15): 1161. doi:10.1001/jama.1935.02760410005002. ISSN 0002-9955.
  27. ^ a b "The Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with an Injectable Form of Bee Venom". Annals of Internal Medicine. 11 (7): 1077. 1938-01-01. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-11-7-1077. ISSN 0003-4819.
  28. ^ a b Nicholls, Edith E. (1938). "A Study of the Organisms Recovered from Filtrates of Cultures of Hemolytic Streptococci". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 62 (3): 300–306. doi:10.1093/infdis/62.3.300. ISSN 0022-1899. JSTOR 30089330.
  29. ^ Nicholls, Edith E. "The Persistence of Streptococcus scarlatinae in the Throat of Convalescent Scarlet Fever Patients." American Journal of Hygiene 7 (1927): 84-8.
  30. ^ Stainsby, Wendell J., and Edith E. Nicholls. "The clinical significance of the erythrocytic sedimentation test in rheumatoid arthritis." The Journal of Clinical Investigation 12, no. 6 (1933): 1041-1049.
  31. ^ Nicholls, Edith E. (1934-05-01). "The Incidence and Biological Charaxcteristics of the Hemolytic Bacillus Coli in the Stools of Healthy Individuals". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 13 (3): 479–494. doi:10.1172/JCI100599. ISSN 0021-9738. PMC 436007. PMID 16694223.
  32. ^ Nicholls, Edith E.; Hansson, K. G.; Stainsby, Wendell J. (January 1934). "Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis with Hyperthermia Produced by a High-Frequency Current". JBJS. 16 (1): 69. ISSN 0021-9355.
  33. ^ Nicholls, Edith E. (December 1950). "The incidence of a normal spinal fluid in acutepoliomyelitis". The Journal of Pediatrics. 37 (6): 894–898. doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(50)80051-3. ISSN 0022-3476. PMID 14795356.
  34. ^ "Dr. Wendell Stainsby, GMC Physician, Dies". The Daily Item. 1969-07-10. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  35. ^ "Obituary for Edith Stainsby". The Danville News. 1978-03-13. p. 11. Retrieved 2024-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
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