Who was Marion Hilliard?

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Anna Marion Hilliard was a physician (born at Morrisburg, Ontario 17 June 1902; died at Toronto 15 July 1958). She studied at U of T (BA, MB), did post-graduate work in Britain and in 1928 joined the staff of Women's College Hospital, Toronto, where she headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology 1947-57. In 1947 she helped devise a simplified Pap test, which she introduced the following year at WCH's newly formed Cancer Detection Clinic, and she was the driving force in getting WCH accepted as a U of T teaching hospital (1956). Her commonsense approach to women's problems, especially those connected with childbirth, brought her many devoted admirers and led to a series of articles which were the basis of her book, A Woman Doctor Looks at Love and Life (1957). She was also the author of Woman and Fatigue, published posthumously in 1960.

Carlotta Hacker
Canadian Encyclopedia