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A Woman's Quest

Part 2 — INDEX

Reading edition

Abbott, Lucy M., 253

Agassiz, Alexander, 385

Aigner, Dr., 182, 222, 223

Albert Edward Hospital, Kolhapur, India, 497

Alcott, Mr., 200

Alexander, Mrs. Janet, 136

Alexandrian School, 261

Alpha, The, 198, 203

American Journal of Pharmacy, 485

American Medical Association, 342, 344

Ames, Rev. Charles G., 463

Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 200

Anti-Slavery Movement, 110, 138, 146, 152, 153, 154, 193, 198, 202, 245, 297, 391, 459

A Practical Illustration of Woman’s Right to Labor, or A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M. D., late of Berlin, Prussia, by Caroline H. Dall, xi, 59, 256

Association for the Advancement of the Medical Education of Women, 398

Asylum for Infants, Temporary, 280

Atlee, Dr., 129

Bacon, Lord, 261

Barnard, Mrs. Mary C. E., 487

Barnard, Rev. Charles F., 329

Baudeloque, 263

Beck, Miss Sarah P., 487

Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 189, 203, 211

Bellevue Hospital (New York), 222

Bellevue Hospital (N. Y.) Training School for Nurses, 364

Bellows, Rev. Mr., 203, 207

Bennett, Dr. Alice, 390, 402

Berlin, Dr. Fanny, 458, 473

Berne, University of (Switzerland), 350

Bigelow, Dr. Jacob, 136

Billroth, Prof., 347

Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 119, 121, 123, 124, 130, 134, 143, 148, 149, 155, 156, 178, 180, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 202, 206, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 222, 225, 226, 236, 237, 238, 240, 268, 307, 310, 311, 335, 358, 373, 375, 376, 476

Blackwell, Dr. Emily, 112, 113, 130, 195, 206, 211, 214, 225, 226, 236, 237, 238, 240, 268, 358, 373, 375, 376, 402

Blackwell, Henry, 181

Blackwell, Mrs. Antoinette Brown (Rev. Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell), 181, 198, 202

Blackwell, Mrs. Lucy Stone, see Mrs. Lucy Stone

Blackwell, Mrs., Sr., 181, 203

Blake, Dr. Clarence J., 498

Boardman, Mrs., 411

Boivin, Madame, 111, 263, 392

Bologna, University of, 111

Bond, George William, 244, 293, 294, 487

Bond, Louisa (Mrs. George William), 244, 487

Bond, Rev. Henry, 153

Booth, Mary L., xi, 184, 185, 198, 203, 210, 230, 235, 239, 240, 476, 486

Boston City Hospital, 337, 364

Boston Evening Transcript, 127, 481, 487

Boston Female Medical School, see New England Female Medical College

Boston Herald, 481

Boston Lying-in Hospital, 243, 297, 334, 338, 364

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 224, 342, 389, 390

Boston University Medical College, 285, 286, 382, 448

Bowditch, Dr. Henry I., 256, 277, 332, 336, 337, 344, 390, 392, 498

Bowditch, Dr. Vincent Y., 498

Boylston Prize (Harvard University), won by a woman, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, 399

Brace, Charles, 201

Bradburn, Mrs. George, 152

Breed, Dr. Mary E., 216, 217, 295, 309, 487

Breslau, Prof., 347

Brignoli, 215

Brisbane, Albert, 200

Brook Farm Movement, 201

Brown, Dr. B., 310

Browne, Mrs., 226

Buck, Dr., 222

Buckel, Dr. C. Annette, 345, 346, 348, 349, 351, 354, 364, 369, 370, 458, 465, 489

Burns, Dr. John, 263

Busch, Dr., 44

Business, Folio, The, 129

Butler, Mrs. Emma E., 474

Cabot, Dr. Arthur T., 498

Cabot, Dr. Richard C., 498

Cabot, Dr. Samuel, 244, 256, 277, 301, 332, 339, 340, 345, 350, 351, 487, 498

Cabot, J. Elliot, 385

Call, Abraham A., 294

Call, Dr. Emma L., 294, 401, 412, 417, 497

Cambridge (England), University of, 480

Carey, Miss Susan, 244

Cary, Alice and Phœbe, 198, 215

Cary, Miss, 411

Celsus, 261

Centennial International Exhibition, 371

Chadwick, Dr. James R., 286, 385, 498

Chadwick, Mrs. (M.D.), 126, 139

Channing, Dr. Walter, 277, 332, 333, 498

Channing, Dr. W. H., 185

Channing, Dr. William F., 151, 244

Channing, Rev. William Ellery, 133

Chapin, Rev. Mr., 153, 203

Chase, Salmon, 153

Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., 186, 193, 194, 244, 245, 293, 348, 363, 365, 371, 404, 450, 469, 471, 473, 476

Cherokee Indians, 142, 173

Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, 253, 345, 488

Christian Science, 166

Clairvoyance, 30, 31, 166, 179

Clark, Dr. E. H., 244, 277

Clark, Dr. Henry E., 254

Clark, (Clarke), Dr. Nancy, 149, 150, 336

Clarke, Anna H. (Mrs. James Freeman), 194, 244, 476, 497

Clarke, Dr. Edward H., 498

Clarke, Miss Lilian Freeman, 365, 497

Clarke, Miss Sarah, 194

Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, 244, 464, 497

Cleveland, Dr. Emeline H., 279

Cleveland Medical College, see Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Mrs., 201

Cole, Mrs., 215

Colfax, Speaker, 153, 199

College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York), 379

Columbian University (Georgetown, D. C.), 441

Cook, Miss, 301

Cooper, Peter, 201

Cotting, Dr. S., 256, 277

Cummings & Sears, 371, 494

Curie, Madame Marie, 481, 482

Curtis, George W., 203

Cushier, Dr. Elizabeth M., 402

Cushman, Charlotte, 200

Dall, Mrs. Caroline H., xi, 59, 60

Davis, Andrew Jackson, 200

Delamater, Dr. John J., 123, 125, 126, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 178

De la Motte, 261

Deventer, 261

Dimock, Dr. Susan, 238, 364, 365, 368, 370, 495

Ditrichin, Justina, see Siegemund

Douglass, Frederick, 153

Drysdale, Dr. Charles, 406

Eagleswood (N. J.), Phalanstery, 201

Eastern Dispensary (N. Y.), 223

Eberle, Dr., 275

Ebert, Dr., 58, 69, 70

École de Médecine, University of Paris, 398

Edinburgh, University of, 130, 350

Elder, Dr. William, 153, 211

Eliot, President Charles W., 385, 386, 387

Ellis, Miss Mary J., 487

Elson family, 460

Emerson, Professor and Mrs., 160, 161, 162, 180

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 153, 159, 160, 161, 162, 180

Farnham, Miss, 411

Fay, Theodore S., 69, 134, 485

Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, see Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of

Female Medical Education Society (Boston), see New England Female Medical College

Fichte, 464

First in America—

Woman listed officially as specializing in surgery, 336

Woman appointed as attending surgeon on a hospital staff, 369

District Nursing service, 411

Hospital Social Service, 365

Regularly organized general Training School for Nurses, 363

Regularly trained nurse graduated, 364

Fitz, Dr. Reginald H., 498

Fliedner, Pastor, 57

Florence, University of, 111

Formes, Karl, 215

Fourier Movement, The, 138, 201

Fox Sisters, The, 201

Free Lovers Circle, 138, 200

Free Soil Movement, The, 146, 152, 153, 154

Freeman, Miss, 200

Freiligrath, 477

French, Mrs. Lucretia G., 487

Frothingham, Rev. O. B., 203

Gannett, Dr. W. W., 49

Garrett, Miss (England), 307

Garrett, Miss Mary (Baltimore, Md.), 437

Garrison, William Lloyd, 151, 153, 199, 244, 459, 474, 488

Geneva (N. Y.), Medical College, 112

George Washington University Medical School, see Columbian University, Georgetown, D. C.

Gerry, Dr. Ruth A., 489

Gibbons, Dr., 343

Giessen, University of, 111

Giles, John, 153

Glances and Glimpses, Autobiography of Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, 112, 126, 127, 149

Goddard, George A., 440

Goddard, Miss Lucy, 186, 244, 293, 295, 404, 410, 440, 476, 487

Goddard, Miss Matilda, 151, 280

Goddard, Mrs. M. LeB., 440

Goldthwait, Dr. J. E., 498

Goodrich, Miss, 105, 107

Gottschalk, 200

Graefe, von, Prof., 347

Greeley, Horace, 199, 200, 204

Greeley, Mrs. Horace, 201

Greene, Dr. Cordelia A., 126, 142, 498

Greene, Miss Elizabeth, 365

Greenwood, Grace (Mrs. Leander Lippincott), 146, 153

Gregory, Samuel, 272, 284

Griesinger, Prof., 347

Grimké, Miss Angelina, see Mrs. Theodore Weld

Grimké, Miss Sarah, 149, 150, 198, 201

Grissell, Dr. Elizabeth, 126

Grosvenor, Mrs., 200

Hahnemann, Dr., 32

Hale, Dr. Edward Everett, 465

Hale, Miss Ellen E., 416

Harper’s Bazar, 230, 486

Harvard University Medical School, 126, 136, 249, 286, 346, 380, 381, 383, 385, 386, 387, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 435, 437, 481, 482

Hasenfuss, (Hassenfuss), Mrs., 246

Haydock, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, 207

Haynes, Miss, 199

Heinzen, Karl, 297, 300, 303, 304, 458, 459, 460, 477, 487, 488

Heinzen, Mrs. Karl, 297, 300, 301, 304, 458, 459

Hemenway, Augustus, 372

Hildreth, Mr. and Mrs. George (N. Y.), 152, 200, 215

Hildreth, Mrs. George (Boston), 194

Hilliard, Mrs. George, 194

Hippocrates, 261

Hirschfeld, Dr. Henriette P., see Dr. Henriette Pagelson

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 403

Home for Aged Men, 243

Homeopathy, 32, 33, 105, 286, 448, 459

Hooper, E. W., 402

Horn, Director, 64, 68, 69

Horner, Prof., 347

Hospital Social Service in America begun, First, 365

Hovey, Miss Marian, 385, 386, 437

Howe, Julia Ward, 335

Howland, Mrs., 203

Hunt, Dr. Harriot Kezia, 112, 126, 127, 134, 135, 136, 137, 149, 150, 152, 185, 186, 192, 197, 224, 336,485, 486

Hunt, Sarah Augusta, 135, 136

Hunter, Dr., 263

Hydropathy, 179

Hypnotism, 166

Illinois State Medical Society, 344

Infant asylum in Boston, Temporary, 280

Insane asylums of Massachusetts, Women physicians on staffs of, 411

International Review, 286

Jackson, Francis, 244

Jackson, Dr. James, 136, 278

Jacobi, Dr. Abraham, 399

Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam, 136, 392, 398, 402

Jarvis, Dr. Edward, 498

Jefferson, Joseph, 215

Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia), 274, 379

Jeffries, Dr. B. Joy, 498

Jelly, Dr. George F., 498

Jex-Blake, Dr. Sophia, 130, 350, 405, 489

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.), 403, 435, 436, 437, 442

Johnson, Dr., 267

Joshee, Dr. Anandabai, 497

Kaiserswerth Institute, 57, 101, 197

Keene, Laura, 215

Keller, Dr. Elizabeth C., 370, 496

Kemble, Fanny, 197

Kilian, Dr., 44

Kimball, Miss Helen, 498

Kimball, Moses K., 498

King, Rev. Starr, 153

Kirtland, Dr. J. P., 124, 174

Kirtland, Mrs., 199

Kissam, Dr., 203, 211, 222, 227

Know-Nothing Party, 133, 277

Koehler Family, 460

Kölliker’s Comparative Anatomy, 175

Lachapelle, Madame, 42, 52, 263, 392

Lee, Mrs. George G., 298

Leland, Dr. G. A., 498

Liberator, The, 488

Lippincott, Mrs. Leander, see Grace Greenwood

Livermore, Mrs. Mary A., 129

London (England) School of Medicine for Women, 490

London (England) Hospital, 481

Lowell, Miss Anna, 194, 245

Lowell, President, 481

Lutze, Dr. Arthur, 31, 32, 33

Lyons, Mrs., 203

Lyceum System, 152

Mack, Mrs. Thomas, 470

Magnetism, 33, 138, 166

Mallory, Dr. F. B., 498

Man-Midwifery, Samuel Gregory, 272

Mann, Mrs. Horace, 201

Marburg, University of, 111

Mary Thompson Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, 253, 345, 488, 489

Mason, Hugh, 410

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 365

Massachusetts Infant Asylum, 280

Massachusetts General Hospital, 337, 346, 364

Massachusetts Hospitals for Insane, Women Physicians on staffs of, 411

Massachusetts, Legislature of, 334, 411

Massachusetts Medical Society, 277, 382, 383, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394

Maternité, Paris, 279, 308, 370, 490

Mauriceau, 261

May, Miss Abby, 186, 244, 245

May, F. W. G., 244, 294

Mayer, Prof., 347

Mayo, Rev. A. D., and family, 131, 137, 138, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148, 151, 152, 154, 176, 464

McCready, Dr., 182, 203, 222

Medical Education of Women, by Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake, 490

Medical Loan Fund Associations in Ohio, 485, 486

Medicine as a Profession for Women, Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake, 490

Merriam, Mrs. Joanna L., 487

Mesmerism, 33, 165, 166

Meyer, Professor, 368

Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of, 383, 489

Minot, Dr. Francis, 498

Moleschott, Prof., 347

Moral Education Association of Massachusetts, 417, 418

Morton, Dr. Helen, 253, 300, 352, 366, 370, 402, 410, 416, 437, 440, 458, 476

Mosher, Dr. Eliza M., 402

Mott, Lucretia, 192

Mott, Mr. and Mrs., 135

Müller, Dr., 17, 18, 19, 42, 44

Müller, Dr. Johannes, 44

Müller, Prof., 58, 68, 69, 70, 124

Mumford, Rev. Mr., 153

Murdock, James, 153

New England Female Medical College, 150, 236-286, 291, 292, 293

Boston Female Medical School, 247, 248, 249

Female Medical Education Society, Boston, 248, 249

Clinical Department of, 243-285

Opened, 244, 252

Training for nurses, 361

Closed, 285

College merged with Boston University Medical College, 285

New England Hospital for Women and Children,

Founded, 293

Incorporated, 294, 295

First board of directors, 486, 487

First location, 293; Second location, 329

First woman in America listed officially as specializing in surgery (being appointed assistant surgeon), 336

First General Training

School for Nurses regularly organized in America, 363

First Hospital Social Service in America established, 365

First woman in America appointed as attending surgeon on a hospital staff, 369

First District Nursing Service in America established, 411

Graduation of first regularly trained nurse in America, 364

List of medical men on the consulting staff during the lifetime of Dr. Zakrzewska, 498

Main building of Hospital named “The Zakrzewska Building,” 471

New buildings (third location) opened, 356

Plans receive award at Centennial International Exhibition, 371

Purposes, 295

Resident students required to have degree of M.D., 411

New England Hospital Medical Society, 385, 395, 401, 496

New England Women’s Club, 375

New England Woman’s Medical Society, 496

New Hospital for Women (London), 409

Newton, Sir Isaac, 481, 482

New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 109, 112, 114, 130, 149, 182-190, 193, 196, 206-219, 227-229, 233, 234, 238, 239, 257, 293, 360, 374, 487, 489

Woman’s Medical College of the, 348, 350, 375, 376, 399

New York Times, 184, 203, 230

New York Tribune, 204

New York University of Medicine, 310

New York “Woman’s Hospital,” 225

Nichols, Miss, 301

Nightingale, Florence, 57, 197, 206

Nurses, first regularly organized Training School in America for, 363

Ohio Female Medical Education Society (Cleveland), 485

Open Court, The, 442

Osgood, Dr. C. H., 498

Pagelson (Tiburtius), Dr. Henriette, 432

Palmer, Mrs. Mary A. S. (Mrs. J. K.), 487

Pareus, 261

Paris Maternité, 279, 308, 370, 490

Parker, Theodore, 133, 151, 153, 244

Parker, Dr. Willard, 222, 347

Parkman, Miss Mary Jane, 186, 244, 365

Peabody, Miss Elizabeth P., 197, 201

Peile Hall, Cambridge (England), 480

Pennsylvania, Female Medical College of, see Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of

Pennsylvania State Medical Society, 129, 390

Pennsylvania, University of, 379

Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of (Philadelphia), 67, 69, 105, 126, 128, 137, 191, 195, 224, 278, 279, 310, 374, 376, 402, 488, 489, 496, 497

Phalanstery (Eagleswood, N. J.), 201

Philadelphia County Medical Society, 128, 278, 310

Philadelphia Woman’s Medical College, see Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of

Philadelphia, Woman’s Hospital of, 192, 279, 374, 496

Phillips, Wendell, 151, 153, 244

Physiological Society (Cleveland), 121, 124, 125

Pioneer, The, 488

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, 111

Pope, Colonel A. A., 468

Pope, Drs. Augusta and Emily, 417, 458, 468, 497

Porter, Dr., 203

Prang family, 458, 460

Preston, Dr. Ann, 191, 240, 278, 358, 373

Priestley, Dr., 310

Putnam, Dr. C. G., 332

Putnam, Dr. J. J ., 498

Putnam Jacobi, Dr. Mary, see Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam

Quaker friends of the New York Infirmary, The, 185, 210

Reade, Charles, 490

Reisig, Dr., 84

Remington, Professor Joseph P., 485

Restelle, Madame, 180

Richards, Miss Linda A., 364

Richards, Professor, 481

Richardson, Dr. Maurice H., 498

Ripley, George, 199, 200, 204

Rock Garden, 458

Rolfe, Dr. E. C., 498

Rose, Mrs. Ernestine L., 202

Royal Free Hospital (London), 406, 408, 409

Royal Hospital Charité (Berlin), 36, 40, 43, 100, 172, 254, 484

Russell, Dr. LeBaron, 385

Russell, Mrs. George R., 476

Russell, Mrs. Sarah Shaw, 244, 245

Russell, Thomas, 487

Schmidt, Dr. Joseph Hermann, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 67, 69, 107, 332

Schmidt, Mrs. Joseph Hermann, 40, 53, 54, 62, 69, 70

School for Midwives (Berlin), 36, 38, 43, 56

Sedgwick, Miss Catherine, 107, 201, 203

Sedgwick, Theodore, 108

Seelye, Dr., 142, 143

Severance, Mrs. Caroline M., 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134, 137, 138, 142, 154, 186, 190, 460, 485, 487

Sewall, Dr. Lucy E., 192, 253, 295, 299, 314, 335, 339, 345, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 363, 366, 370, 402, 416, 437, 440, 476

Sewall, Hon. Samuel E., 192, 236, 244, 250, 281, 283, 285, 294, 298, 299, 440

Sewall, Joseph, 192

Shattuck, Dr. F. C., 498

Shaw, Mrs. Robert G., 203, 244, 353, 476

Shepard, Mrs., 125, 131, 142

Siegemund, Justina Ditrichin, 36, 37, 261, 263

Simpson, Dr., 310

Sims, Dr. J. Marion, 224, 225, 226, 274, 275, 276

Sister Catherine, 41, 43, 44, 56, 57, 58, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105

Smith, Dr. Mary A., 383, 410

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes, 199, 215

Social Service in America, First Hospital, 365

Somerville, Mrs., 392, 405

Somnambulism, 30, 31, 166

Spiritualism, 31, 138, 166, 179, 201

Sprague, Miss Julia A., 296, 297, 301, 304, 311, 368, 458, 477

Spring, Marcus, 201

Spring, Mrs. Marcus, 198, 203

Springfield Republican, The, 481

Stephenson, John H., 487

Stevens, Miss Hannah, 151

Stevenson, Dr. Sarah Hackett, 344

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (London), 406

St. Thomas’ Hospital (London), 406

Stone, Mrs. Lucy, 181, 198, 202

Storer, Dr. Horatio R., 295, 310, 332, 335, 338, 339, 341, 342, 343

Story of My Life, The, by Dr. J. Marion Sims, 225, 274

Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher, 244

Stuart, Henri L., 226

Suffolk District Medical Society (Boston), 389, 394

Survey, The, 489

Tarbell, Dr. G. G., 498

Taylor, Bayard, 153

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 442, 482

Thompson, Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, Mary, 345, 488, 489

Thompson, Dr. Mary Harris, 253, 345, 488, 489

Tiburtius, Dr. Henriette P., see Dr. Henriette Pagelson

Tolman, James, 487

Trained nurses in America, see Nurses

Training School for Nurses in America, first regularly organized general, 363

Transcendentalism, 132, 198

Tudor, Mrs. F. Fenno, 244

Tuthill, Dr. and Mrs., 203

Tuthill, Miss Sarah, 203

Tyng, Dr. Anita E., 253, 309, 336, 338, 351, 487, 488

Unitarians, 138, 146

Universalists, 138, 146

University, Harvard, 400, 401

University, Johns Hopkins, see Johns Hopkins University

University Medical School, Harvard, see Harvard University Medical School

University of Berne, 350, 489

Bologna, 111

Cambridge (Eng.), 480

Edinburgh, 130, 350

Florence, 111

Giessen, 111

Marburg, 111

Michigan, 383, 497

Paris, 399

Pennsylvania, 379

Zurich, 346, 347, 383, 496

Vaughan, Miss Virginia, 159, 160

Vaughan, Mrs. C., 152, 153, 154

Virchow’s Cellular Pathology, 175

von Graefe, Prof., 347

von Raumer, Minister, 68

Ware, Dr. John, 254, 255, 256, 498

Weld, Angelina Grimké (Mrs. Theodore), 149, 150, 198, 201

Weld, Theodore, 201

Western Reserve University Medical School (Cleveland Medical College), 115, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 131, 134, 163, 168-170, 171, 174, 175, 394

White, Mrs. Mary G., 487

Whitman, Walt, 167

Whitney, Dr. W. F., 498

Whitney, Miss Anne, 197

Willey, Mr. and Mrs. G., 152, 177

Withington, Dr. C. F., 498

Woman, First in America listed officially as specializing in surgery, 336

First in America appointed as attending surgeon on a hospital staff, 369

Woman Hater, The, Charles Reade, 490

Woman in Medicine, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, 339

Woman’s Hospital, New York, see New York Woman’s Hospital

Woman’s Hospital, Philadelphia, see Philadelphia, Woman’s Hospital of

Woman’s Journal, The, 322, 428

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, see Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of

Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 348, 350, 375, 376, 399

Woman’s Medical Society, New England, see New England Woman’s Medical Society

Woman’s Rights Movement, 47, 131, 134, 138, 153, 156, 157, 202, 212, 245, 297, 459, 488

Woman’s Rights Movement in London, 410

Woman’s Right to Labor, A Practical Illustration of, by Caroline H. Dall, xi, 59, 60, 256

Women and Children, Chicago Hospital for, see Chicago Hospital for Women and Children

Women and Children, New England Hospital for, see New England Hospital for Women and Children

Women and Children, New York Infirmary for, see New York Infirmary for Women and Children

Women of attainment, Why not monuments in Westminster Abbey to English, 404

Women physicians in England, Training of, compared with that in America, 405-409

Women’s Club, New England, see New England Women’s Club

Women’s, Club, Worcester (Mass.), 436

Women’s College, Newnham (Cambridge, Eng.), 480

Worcester (Mass.), Women’s Club, see Women’s Club, Worcester

Wright, Mrs., 134

Würtzer, Dr., 224

Wyman, Dr. Morrill, 385, 392

Zakrzewska, Marie E., M.D.

birth, 4

ancestry, 483

recollections of early childhood, 3-7

beginning of school life,

conflicts, friendships, prizes,

contacts with mental and physical illness, her mother begins training as midwife,

begins to read medical books, 8-25

end of school life, resorts to father’s library, 26

training in housework, dressmaking, nursing, French, housekeeping and assisting in mother’s practice, 26-34

studies midwifery privately under Professor Schmidt, 36

enters school at Royal Hospital Charité as student and assistant teacher, 42

repeatedly declines father’s choice for marriage, 51, 66

appointed Accoucheuse en chef, 52, 65

resigns position and emigrates to America to organize a woman’s hospital, 66-72

arrives in New York, 73-83

disappointed in professional plans she becomes self-supporting in business, 83-105, 115-118

her meeting with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell reopens the medical path, 108-110, 114

assists Dr. Blackwell in dispensary of New York Infirmary, 114-115

enters Western Reserve Medical College (Cleveland), 123

learns details of the professional and social opposition to women physicians, students and practitioners, 125-131

meets men and women noted in all phases of advanced thought, 134, 138, 146, 149-153, 160

first visit to Boston, 149

receives degree of M.D., 168

returns to New York where no one is willing to rent her an office, 78;

begins practice in Dr. Blackwell’s house, 181;

and finds the Infirmary dispensary closed, 182

successful visit to Boston to seek money to reopen the dispensary and to establish the hospital department, 190-191

visit to Philadelphia decides those interested in the Woman’s Medical College to establish also a hospital, 191, 192

entrée into the varied social circles of New York, 196-204, 220-222

becomes resident physician and superintendent of the finally opened New York Infirmary, 209-211

incidents in hospital management, in teaching and in practice, 213-218

experiences in mobbing of Infirmary and in neighborhood fires, 218-219, 227, 233

meeting with Dr. J. Marion Sims and observation of his interpretation of the New York Woman’s Hospital’s by-law calling for the appointment of a woman physician on the staff, 224-226

definitely begins training of nurses, 212, 228

health begins to show effect of overstrain, 230, 234, 239, 244

removes to Boston to become a member of the faculty of the New England Female Medical College, 239

is appointed professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, 238, 259

establishes the Clinical Department (hospital) of which she becomes the head, and in which

she continues the definite training of nurses, 243, 252, 361

tries to elevate the standards of the college and insists students must be trained practically as well as theoretically, 250-252, 273-277

is refused admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society because of her sex, 277, 394

establishes a temporary asylum for infants, 280

continuing unable to raise the standards of the college, she resigns from the faculty and the hospital is discontinued, 280-286

founds the New England Hospital for Women and Children and becomes resident, attending and dispensary physician and in charge of the out-practice, 293, 294

details of out-practice; night calls, 328, 329

continuous growth of this hospital and addition of assisting and coöperating medical women necessitate moving to larger quarters and favor her plans for specially designed buildings, 329, 333, 334, 352-354, 356-360, 493-495

she buys a horse and carriage, 335

for a second time she is refused admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society because of her sex, 394

opening of the new hospital buildings enables her to expand her already existing training school into the first general training school for nurses regularly organized in America, this school being under the direction of Dr. Susan A. Dimock, 360-364

serious effects of overwork oblige her to take first vacation in fifteen years; goes to Europe, 366-368

joins in the movement to check tendency towards the lowering of standards for the medical education of women, and towards opening to women the great medical schools of America, 373-387, 398-399, 401-403, 424-428, 435-437, 448

assists in forming the New England Hospital Medical Society and becomes its first president, 385

declines to apply a third time for admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society, this society now deciding to admit women, 392-395

goes to Europe again for vacation and investigates the progress of medical women in England, 404-411

resigns as attending physician, becoming advisory physician, 416

her private life, 457-466

celebrates her seventieth birthday, 470

her acceptance of the inevitable, 471-474

her death, 474

her farewell message, 474-478

addresses, letters and writings,

The Study of Medicine, 259

Hospitals; Their History, Designs and Needs, 312

On the Problem of the Doctor in Charging Fees, 315

On Charity, 315

On the Golden Rule, 316

A Lesson, 316

Another True Story, 322

The Medical Education of Women, 375

A Moral Code for Women, 417

Should Women Study Medicine?, 424

What’s in a Name?, 428

The Emancipation of Woman: Will It Be a Success?, 442

Letters to Dr. Lucy E. Sewall, 300-312, 348, 367, 412

On the opening of the new buildings of the New England Hospital, 356

On the question of Harvard University opening a separate medical school for women, 380

Declining to apply a third time for admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society, having been refused twice on account of her sex, 393

Should medicines which cause anesthesia, emesis or prostration ever be administered to refractory prisoners to enforce obedience through their action?, 396

Letter to Mrs. Cheney and others, 404

On the absence in Westminster Abbey of any monument to a woman of attainment, 405

On the abuse of the word “lady,” 405

On the progress of medical women in England, 405

Comparison between earlier and later women medical students, 413

On the increasing work of the Hospital under women surgeons, 438

On her attitude as a critic, 447

Against the admission to the New England Hospital of women students of the Boston University Medical School (that being then a school of homeopathy), 448

On the reciprocal relation of the medical staff and the board of directors of the New England Hospital, 449

On a question of hospital discipline, 451

Letter to an ambitious colleague whose feelings have been hurt, 453

On the relation of the Dispensary to confidence in women surgeons, 468

On the laying of the corner stone of the Ednah D. Cheney surgical building, 469

Farewell message to be read at her funeral service, 474

Zurich, University of, see University of Zurich

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