Honoria acosta-sison biography of donald

At the very base of all her achievement, was Honoria the person. And at the core of her personality was a definite idea about what human being should be, making her life a moral commitment at the very outset.

A basic concept to her was "purity".

First Filipina doctor Honoria Acosta-Sison, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania,

First Filipina doctor Honoria Acosta-Sison, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania,

Honoria Acosta-Sison () was the first female doctor in the Philippines.

1st Filipina physician; 1st Filipina graduate of an American medical school, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania ().

Honoria Acosta-Sison, a pensionado who earned her medical degree from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and eventually became the.

Born under Spanish rule during a time when education was limited for Filipina women, Honoria Acosta-Sison strived to be a physician and studied at the Women's.

In her childhood, she was told by her aunt that "purity is a treasure girls must possess." Like a glass, it could never be put together again when broken. "Being only a small girl of five or six years," she confides in her short autobiographical sketch, "I was not conscious of the full implication of the instruction but the forcefulness of the simile never left me through the years."

This was the reason for the simplicity of her ways.

Relating her mother’s fondness for beautiful dresses, she took care to add that it was "a trait something I had not inherited." And it was truth. She was not very much concerned with the outer trappings of feminity, although a portrait of her in 1913 and a family picture of 1933 showed her to be quite femmine,