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| first_name = Petronella van
| name = Heerden
| honorific_prefix = Miss| honorific_suffix = MD MRCS LRCP
| image = File:Heerden,_Petronella_van.jpg
| birth_date = 1887| death_date = 1975| address = 87 Marchmont WC [A63]<br />African Life Buildings, St George's Street, Cape Town [1925]<br />c/o National Provincial Bank Ltd., Ebury Street, SW1 [1931]<br />Papenboom, Newlands Avenue, Cape Province, S. Africa [1933]<br />Box 187, Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa [1949]| occupation = medical
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| societies = Royal College of Physicians<br />Royal College of Surgeons
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== Notes ==
=== House Notes ===
1924.02.19 proposed by A. Keith, seconded by C.G. Seligman 19 Feb. 1924
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975), was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor. [1] Her thesis, which she obtained a doctorate on in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans.[2] She practiced as a gynecologist, retiring in 1942.[2] She also served in the South African medical corps during World War II.[3]<br /><br />She campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s, and worked as a farmer after retiring from her medical work.[4] She also published two autobiographical texts, Kerssnuitsels (Candle Snuffings) and Die sestiende koppie (the Sixteenth Cup).[1]
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Kerssnuitsels (Candle Snuffings) <br /><br />Die sestiende koppie (the Sixteenth Cup).
=== House Publications ===