Marie Boivin

French midwife, inventor, and writer

Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin (9 April 1773 – 16 May 1841) was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer.Mme Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century.

Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years.