Google on Saturday honoured Anandi Gopal Joshi, India’s first female doctor, with a doodle to mark her 153rd birth anniversary. In the illustration, she is seen holding a degree and wearing a stethoscope around her neck.

Joshi was born Yamuna on March 31, 1865, to a Brahmin family in Kalyan in present-day Maharashtra. As was the practice back then, Yamuna was married to a widower almost 20 years her senior when she was just nine years old. She was renamed Anandi after her marriage. Her husband encouraged her to continue her education.

At the age of 16, two years after a son she gave birth to died because of lack of proper medical care, Joshi went to the United States. She earned her medical degree from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania – now known as Drexel University College of Medicine – and returned to India in 1886. Her dream was to open a medical college for women.

She was only 19 when she became the physician in charge of the female ward at Albert Edward Hospital in Kolhapur. Joshi died of tuberculosis before her 22nd birthday.

This Google Doodle, designed by Bangalore-based artist Kashmira Sarode, comes months after Google honoured Rukhmabai Raut, one of British India’s first practising female doctors.