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
Woman’s Hospital, New York, _see_ New York Woman’s Hospital
Woman’s Hospital, Philadelphia, _see_ Philadelphia, Woman’s Hospital
of
Woman’s Journal, The, 322, 428
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, _see_ Pennsylvania, Woman’s
Medical College of
Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 348, 350, 375, 376,
399
Woman’s Medical Society, New England, _see_ New England Woman’s
Medical Society
Woman’s Rights Movement, 47, 131, 134, 138, 153, 156, 157, 202, 212,
245, 297, 459, 488
Woman’s Rights Movement in London, 410
Woman’s Right to Labor, A Practical Illustration of, by Caroline H.
Dall, xi, 59, 60, 256
Women and Children, Chicago Hospital for, _see_ Chicago Hospital for
Women and Children
Women and Children, New England Hospital for, _see_ New England
Hospital for Women and Children
Women and Children, New York Infirmary for, _see_ New York Infirmary
for Women and Children
Women of attainment, Why not monuments in Westminster Abbey to
English, 404
Women physicians in England, Training of, compared with that in
America, 405-409
Women’s Club, New England, _see_ New England Women’s Club
Women’s, Club, Worcester (Mass.), 436
Women’s College, Newnham (Cambridge, Eng.), 480
Worcester (Mass.), Women’s Club, _see_ Women’s Club, Worcester
Wright, Mrs., 134
Würtzer, Dr., 224
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, 385, 392
Zakrzewska, Marie E., M.D.
birth, 4
ancestry, 483
recollections of early childhood, 3-7
beginning of school life,
conflicts, friendships, prizes,
contacts with mental and physical illness, her mother begins
training as midwife,
begins to read medical books, 8-25
end of school life, resorts to father’s library, 26
training in housework, dressmaking, nursing, French, housekeeping
and assisting in mother’s practice, 26-34
studies midwifery privately under Professor Schmidt, 36
enters school at Royal Hospital Charité as student and assistant
teacher, 42
repeatedly declines father’s choice for marriage, 51, 66
appointed _Accoucheuse en chef_, 52, 65
resigns position and emigrates to America to organize a woman’s
hospital, 66-72
arrives in New York, 73-83
disappointed in professional plans she becomes self-supporting in
business, 83-105, 115-118
her meeting with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell reopens the medical path,
108-110, 114
assists Dr. Blackwell in dispensary of New York Infirmary, 114-115
enters Western Reserve Medical College (Cleveland), 123
learns details of the professional and social opposition to women
physicians, students and practitioners, 125-131
meets men and women noted in all phases of advanced thought, 134,
138, 146, 149-153, 160
first visit to Boston, 149
receives degree of M.D., 168
returns to New York where no one is willing to rent her an office,
78;
begins practice in Dr.
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