_Opening of the new Dispensary building (the Pope Dispensary)--Dr. Zakrzewska speaks of the relation of the Dispensary to confidence in women surgeons--The new surgical building (the Ednah D. Cheney Surgical Building)--Dr. Zakrzewska’s remarks on the progress of the woman physician as demonstrated by these added new buildings (made more complete later by the Kimball Cottage for the Children’s Department)--Celebration of her seventieth birthday by a reception and by the naming of the original main building “The Zakrzewska Building”--Fatigue of this reception emphasized the failing health which had already caused her retirement from private practice--Her characteristic acceptance of the inevitable--Her death--Her funeral services--Her farewell message. (1896-1902.)_ [Illustration: MARIE E. ZAKRZEWSKA, M.D. (1896)] In 1896, Dr. Zakrzewska again refers to the confidence of the community in women surgeons, illustrating it by an experience which she relates in her address at the opening of the new Dispensary building (Pope Dispensary--donated by Colonel Albert A. Pope and named for the donor and his twin sisters, Drs. Augusta and Emily Pope) which was located on the site of the old one at No. 29 Fayette Street. She says: Our Dispensary in especial serves another purpose, namely, to convince rich and poor, educated and uneducated, professionals and nonprofessionals that women physicians can serve the community at large as well as can men physicians. Said an Irishman to me a few weeks ago, when I pronounced it necessary for a member of his family to undergo a serious operation and advised further consultation with other physicians, “Can’t we have one of the women surgeons from your Hospital?” Seeing my surprise at this proposition, as the man was by no means an educated person, he said, “Well, Doctor, when I came to this country with my wife, we were very poor and knew nothing. The good women of the Pleasant Street Dispensary attended to us and taught us to take care of ourselves. All our children were born under their care, and they watched that we did right by them, all without any charge. Now that we can afford good pay, I am sure we want the same, for I swear by the women doctors.” This speech, delivered in good broad Irish brogue, made me laugh most heartily. I soon had the case in the hands of the proper attendant, and all went well. So, friends, let us be proud of all we have done, with the promise to do more and better work as science advances. In June, 1899, on Mrs. Cheney’s seventy-fifth birthday, the cornerstone of the new surgical building (the Ednah D. Cheney Surgical Building) was laid. In an address made at that time, Dr. Zakrzewska says: