A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth)
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A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D.
Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth)
Women physicians -- United States -- Biography; Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth), 1829-1902
Mr. Heinzen was the most radical thinker whom the Germans in America
possess. Besides editing for more than twenty-five years a newspaper,
_The Pioneer_, he has published a number of valuable books on
political, philosophical and social subjects.
[11] Dr. Tyng had been a student at the New England Female Medical
College under Dr. Zakrzewska, later a resident student at the New
England Hospital and then a graduate of the Philadelphia medical
school--this school now becoming established on a more stable
foundation and having changed its name from the Female Medical College
of Pennsylvania to the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
[12] Dr. Thompson was a graduate of the New England Female Medical
College, studying for two years under Dr. Zakrzewska. Later she
received an honorary degree from the Woman’s Medical College of
Pennsylvania. The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children which she
founded was afterwards named the Mary Thompson Chicago Hospital for
Women and Children.
In an affectionate letter to Dr. Zakrzewska in later years, Dr.
Thompson rallies this former teacher on her frank remarks when trying
to goad the students of the New England Female Medical College to
better work, saying:
I wished to tell you of our work here that you might know that we
are doing something more than “the ordinary run of nurses,” I having
heard it remarked in times past that that was all we would amount
to. That did not stimulate me in the least to this kind of work. But
I will tell you what did--it was the actual love of surgery and the
witnessing many men operate when I felt that I could do quite as well
as they did. Since writing you, my third case of ovariotomy has done
well.
[13] Dr. Buckel was graduated in Philadelphia and then served under
Dr. Zakrzewska as resident student at the New York Infirmary. During
the last two years of the Civil War she rendered efficient service in
the United States military hospitals of the Southwest, earning the
soubriquet of “The Little Major.” _The Survey_, May 17, 1913,
says: “She selected and supervised the nurses, kept records in the
absence of clerks, wrote letters for sick soldiers, obtained furloughs
for convalescents, and comforted the dying.” In the year 1865-1866, she
succeeded Dr. Ruth A. Gerry as assistant physician at the New England
Hospital, the latter returning to the practice which she had already
started at Ypsilanti, and beginning to share in the long fight for the
admission of women to the University of Michigan.
[14] After receiving her degree of M.D. at Berne, Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
returned to Great Britain and was largely instrumental in establishing
the London School of Medicine for Women and in obtaining hospital
facilities for it. She has reported her experience in _Medicine as
a Profession for Women_ and in _Medical Education of Women_.
Charles Reade makes extensive use of both of these articles in writing
his novel _The Woman Hater_.
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