Education
University of Toronto.
University of Toronto.
Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her matriculation exam in 1871 and studying medicine at the University of Toronto. Trout and Emily Jennings Stowe were together the first women admitted to the Toronto School of Medicine, by special arrangement. Stowe, however, refused to sit her exams in protest of the school"s demeaning treatment of the two women.
Trout later transferred to the Women"s Medical College in Pennsylvania, where she earned her Doctor of Medicine on March 11, 1875 and become the first licensed female physician in Canada.
Trout then opened the Therapeutic and Electrical Institute in Toronto, which specialized in treatments for women involving "galvanic baths or electricity." Foreign six years, she also ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location. The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in Brantford and Hamilton, Ontario.
Due to poor health, Trout retired in 1882 to Palma Sola, Florida. She was later instrumental in the establishment of a medical school for women at Queen"s University in Kingston.
Her family traveled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to Los Angeles, California, where she died in 1921.
In 1991, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in her honor to commemorate her as the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada.