Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and missionary (died 1960)

Ida S. Scudder

American missionary to India (1870 –1960)

Ida Sophia Scudder was a third-generation American medical missionary in India. She sought to improve the plight of Indian women by fighting against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy. In 1918, she started a teaching hospital, the Christian Medical College & Hospital, in…