PART I. (1829-1862)

(1829-1862)

CHAPTER PAGE

BERLIN

FOREWORD ix-xi

I. Some recollections of childhood 3-7

II. School life begins 8-15

III. First knowledge of hospitals and reading of medical books 16-19

IV. School life ends 20-25

V. Learns all details of household work; then spends most of her time reading in her father’s library; drifts into assisting her mother, who has become a trained midwife 26-34

VI. After regular course receives diploma from School for Midwives and becomes assistant teacher in the Royal Hospital Charité 35-45

VII. Is appointed Accoucheuse en chef and succeeds Dr. Schmidt as teacher of midwifery 46-54

VIII. Resigns her position 55-65

IX. Decides to go to America to help establish a woman’s hospital, her thoughts turned to Philadelphia 66-72

NEW YORK

X. Impressions and experiences on landing--Unable to go to Philadelphia or to establish a practice in New York, she builds up a business in fancy goods 73-91

XI. Social relations 92-98

XII. Meets Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell 99-106

XIII. Goes to Cleveland Medical School to acquire the title of M.D. 107-119

CLEVELAND

XIV. Difficulties encountered by women medical students in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Edinburgh (Scotland) 120-131

XV. Dr. Harriot K. Hunt’s attempt to study at Harvard Medical School and her practice in Boston 132-143

XVI. First visit to Boston--Meets many noted men and women 144-158

XVII. An interesting week-end near Cleveland--Meets Ralph Waldo Emerson--Receives the degree of M.D. 159-175

NEW YORK

XVIII. Impossible for a woman physician to rent an office or to be admitted for study to a hospital or dispensary--Visits Boston to ask money to open the New York Infirmary for Women and Children--Visit to Philadelphia determines the building of the Woman’s Hospital there 176-194

XIX. Frequent guest at the variety of social “circles” then existing in New York 195-208

XX. Opening of the New York Infirmary wards and dispensary, with Dr. Zakrzewska as resident physician and superintendent--Mobbing of the Infirmary following death of a patient 209-219

XXI. Incident of Dr. J. Marion Sims--Second mobbing of the Infirmary--First attempt at establishing a training school for nurses 220-234

BOSTON

XXII. Removes to Boston to become professor of obstetrics in the New England Female Medical College and to establish a hospital department 235-242

XXIII. Meets opposition in her attempts to elevate the standards of the college 243-258

XXIV. Her “Introductory Lecture” 259-270

XXV. Refused admission to Massachusetts Medical Society because she is a woman--Militant ostracism of women by Philadelphia County Medical Society, which tries to crush the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania--She insists medical students must be trained practically as well as theoretically--Continuing unable to elevate the standards of the college, she resigns from the faculty and the hospital is discontinued 271-287