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
[23] Among the internes whose address in India was, unfortunately, not
for long, was the charming Dr. Anandabai Joshee, the first Hindoo woman
to seek medical education in America, and who had been graduated at the
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Coming to Boston in the summer of 1886, she served only a short time
when her health failed. She returned to India to become physician in
charge of the Female Ward of the Albert Edward Hospital in Kolhapur,
but she died from tuberculosis a few months later, before reaching her
twenty-second birthday.
[24] Dr. Clarke was a member of the board of trustees of the New
England Female Medical College when Dr. Zakrzewska became a member
of the faculty. He resigned this trusteeship when she resigned from
the faculty, and his wife, Mrs. Anna H. Clarke, became a member of
the board of directors of the New England Hospital which was founded
immediately thereafter.
Mrs. Clarke remained a member of the board of directors until her
death in 1897. Their daughter, Miss Lilian Freeman Clarke, was always
interested in the Hospital and, as already stated, she assisted in
organizing in connection with the Maternity the first hospital social
service work in America.
[25] (p. 467)
1. John Ware.
2. Samuel Cabot.
3. Walter Channing.
4. Henry I. Bowditch.
5. E. C. Rolfe.
6. Edward Jarvis.
7. Edward H. Clarke.
8. Francis Minot.
9. B. Joy Jeffries.
10. Reginald H. Fitz.
11. C. H. Osgood.
12. G. G. Tarbell.
13 Arthur T. Cabot.
14. W. W. Gannett.
15. James R. Chadwick.
16. Geo. F. Jelly.
17. J. J. Putnam.
18. Maurice H. Richardson.
19. Clarence J. Blake.
20. F. B. Mallory.
21. Vincent Y. Bowditch.
22. W. F. Whitney.
23. G. A. Leland.
24. F. C. Shattuck.
25. C. F. Withington.
26. J. E. Goldthwait.
27. Richard C. Cabot.
[26] In 1910, the Children’s Department obtained a building of its
own in the Kimball Cottage. This was named for Miss Helen Kimball and
for her father, Moses K. Kimball, who was a staunch supporter of the
Hospital. Mrs. Cheney became president in 1887, upon the resignation of
Miss Lucy Goddard, the first president, and continued in office till
1902 when she resigned and was succeeded by Miss Kimball.
[27] An interesting note in connection with the new Surgical Building
was the receipt through Dr. Zakrzewska of a contribution of five
hundred dollars towards its construction, from one of her classmates at
the Cleveland Medical College, Dr. Cordelia A. Greene, then established
at Castile, N. Y.
[28] Boston _Herald_, October 21, 1921.
[29] Boston _Evening Transcript_, March 30, 1922, quoting the
Springfield _Republican_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BLACKWELL, ELIZABETH, M.D., _Pioneer Work in Opening the
Medical Profession to Women_.
CHADWICK, JAMES R., M.D., “The Study and Practice of Medicine
by Women” (_International Review_, October, 1879).
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