Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1916 — Atlanta Has the Only Woman Veterinary Surgeon [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Atlanta Has the Only Woman Veterinary Surgeon

A TLANTA GA—Miss Ruth Corker, fifteen years old, of Ornowood Park, a A suburb of Atlanta, is the only girl veterinary surgeon in the world. Treating mules for lockjaw or sewing up huge cuts in horses’ legs is childs play

for this girl, who learned her profession through her father and grandfather, both of whom are veterinary surgeons. She has a large number of animal patients. , “It takes a bai*rel of chloroform to jput a mule to sleep,” said Miss Qorker. “So I rope them down, inject cocaine locally and operate.” Miss Corker Is very pretty, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. She wanted to do “something different” from other .girls, she said. This Is a

new and entirely unexplored field for women. There are woman physicians who specialize on human patients, but so far as is known this little girl is the only female “horse doctor” in the world. ' r Miss Corker is very much in love with her work. She has acted in ths capacity of helper to her father for so long that there is nothing In the lino of animal ailments that she is afraid to tackle.