Lucy W. Abell

Lucy Weston Abell (1808 – 3 December 1893) was an American physician and the founder of the DC Women's Physiological Society. She was one of the first, if not the first, woman to practise homeopathy in Boston, Massachusetts.

Life Lucy Weston was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Zachariah Weston. She began studying medicine in 1857 at the age of 49 , at the New England Female Medical College in Boston. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Medical University of Philadelphia in April 1860. an obituary in the New England Medical Gazette, published in January 1894, remembered her as 'long known and honored in Boston and elsewhere as one of the pioneers of homeopathy, and of women in medicine'. It went on to say that:Dr. Abell's conscientious devotion to her work, kind heart and shrewd good sense, made her much trusted and loved by a large circle of friends and patients. She will be sincerely mourned.