Welcome to the History Tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here is your 30-second summary.

The world couldn't get enough of Dr. Mary Walker during her lifetime.

Said one newspaper, her strange adventures, thrilling experiences, important services,

and marvelous achievements exceed anything that modern romance or fiction has produced.

She has been one of the greatest benefactors of her sex and of the human race.

And then her rivals, both in medicine and the suffrage movement, began to erase her from history.

The End

Let's talk about Dr. Mary Walker.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1855, Alexander Romanov became Zarr Alexander II of Russia.

Florence Nightingale was starting to set up her nursing facilities in Turkey.

And Mary C. Cole was setting up her British hotel to assist troops near the front lines, both in the Crimean War.

US Congress approved $30,000 to launch a program testing the usefulness of camels to the army.

The experiment produced mixed results and ended with the sale of the camel corps nine years later.

Isaac Singer patented his improvements of a sewing machine.

Circus and Fairstaple, the steam-powered musical instrument the Kaliope was also patented.

Disposable razor-dealer King Gillette and Robert Barron turned philanthropist Andrew Mellon were both born.

Charlotte Bronti died.

And in 1855, Miss Mary Walker became Dr. Mary Walker and embarked on an uphill battle to practice medicine and change minds.

Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26, 1832 in Oswego, New York, the fifth of the six surviving children of Alva and Vesta Walker.

Both of Mary's parents were from Old New England stock.

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