PART II. (1862-1902)

(1862-1902)

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XXVI. Founding of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, with Dr. Zakrzewska as first resident and attending physician 291-298

XXVII. Letters to her first Boston student, Dr. Lucy E. Sewall 299-313

XXVIII. Two stories illustrating her broad common sense methods of studying and treating patients 314-327

XXIX. Incident of Dr. Horatio R. Storer, the only man ever appointed on the attending staff--For the first time in America the name of a woman is listed officially as specializing in surgery, Dr. Anita E. Tyng being appointed assistant surgeon 328-344

XXX. Land bought in Roxbury for new Hospital buildings--Dr. Helen Morton--Sophia Jex-Blake 345-355

XXXI. New Hospital buildings completed--First general Training School for Nurses in America definitely organized--Dr. Susan Dimock--First Hospital Social Service in America organized in connection with the Maternity 356-365

XXXII. Dr. Zakrzewska goes to Europe for her first vacation in fifteen years--Dr. C. Annette Buckel 366-372

XXXIII. Attempts by Dr. Zakrzewska and the other leading pioneer medical women to keep the educational standard for medical women from being lowered--Opening of the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary--Movement to open to women one of the great medical schools for men, with special reference to Harvard 373-387

XXXIV. Opening of the Massachusetts Medical Society to women--Dr. Zakrzewska declines to present herself a third time for admission after having been twice refused because she was a woman 388-397

XXXV. Association for the Advancement of the Medical Education of Women--Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi--The New England Hospital establishes District Nursing in its out-practice--Dr. Zakrzewska leads another attempt to persuade Harvard to admit women to its medical school 398-415

XXXVI. Dr. Zakrzewska replies to the question, “Should Women Study Medicine?”--Her Opinion on “What’s in a Name?” 416-434

XXXVII. Johns Hopkins becomes the first great medical school in America to admit women on the same terms as men--The New England Hospital adds new buildings for the Maternity and for Nurses--Because of misbehavior of men students Columbian University of Georgetown closes its doors to women--Dr. Zakrzewska writes on “The Emancipation of Women: Will It Be a Success?” 435-446

XXXVIII. Dr. Zakrzewska’s attitude as a critic: her judgment on various details of Hospital policy 447-456

XXXIX. Her private life; her home; her friends; her ethics--Men physicians who served as consultants at the New England Hospital 457-467

XL. The New England Hospital adds new buildings for the Dispensary and for the Surgical department--Celebration of Dr. Zakrzewska’s seventieth birthday by a reception and by the naming of the original main building “The Zakrzewska Building”--Her retirement from practice--Her failing health--Her characteristic acceptance of the inevitable--Her death--Her funeral service--Her farewell message 468-478

AFTERWORD 479-482

NOTES 483-498

BIBLIOGRAPHY 499

INDEX 501-514

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph thought to have been taken some time in the ’60’s) Frontispiece

Second location of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston Page 331

Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph taken about 1870) 352

First buildings of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, erected 1872 (third location) 357

Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph taken in 1896) 468