Mildred B. Codding

Mildred B. Codding (19021991) was an American medical illustrator. Her illustrations are featured in numerous textbooks and academic journal articles.

Biography Codding was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1924 and earned a master's degree in Zoology and Genetics from Columbia University in 1926. Wishing to combine her interests of anatomy and art, she entered a two-year program in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University, studying under German medical illustrator Max Brödel.

After one year of study at Johns Hopkins, Codding moved to Boston to work for American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing at the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where Cushing was surgeon-in-chief. Codding had been recommended to Cushing by Brödel.

Codding continued work at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, providing illustrations for many well-known publications. She contributed to the Atlas of Surgical Operations (1939), written by Eliott Cutler and Robert Zollinger, which is considered a staple of surgical education and was used as a field guide for American military medical personnel during World War II. Her drawings feature in the Atlas of Pelvic Operations (1953) by Langdon Parsons and Howard Ulfelder, which was recognized for its outstanding illustrations by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.