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
Blackwell’s house, 181;
and finds the Infirmary dispensary closed, 182
successful visit to Boston to seek money to reopen the dispensary
and to establish the hospital department, 190-191
visit to Philadelphia decides those interested in the Woman’s
Medical College to establish also a hospital, 191, 192
entrée into the varied social circles of New York, 196-204, 220-222
becomes resident physician and superintendent of the finally
opened New York Infirmary, 209-211
incidents in hospital management, in teaching and in practice,
213-218
experiences in mobbing of Infirmary and in neighborhood fires,
218-219, 227, 233
meeting with Dr. J. Marion Sims and observation of his
interpretation of the New York Woman’s Hospital’s by-law
calling for the appointment of a woman physician on the staff,
224-226
definitely begins training of nurses, 212, 228
health begins to show effect of overstrain, 230, 234, 239, 244
removes to Boston to become a member of the faculty of the New
England Female Medical College, 239
is appointed professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and
children, 238, 259
establishes the Clinical Department (hospital) of which she
becomes the head, and in which she continues the definite
training of nurses, 243, 252, 361
tries to elevate the standards of the college and insists students
must be trained practically as well as theoretically, 250-252,
273-277
is refused admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society because
of her sex, 277, 394
establishes a temporary asylum for infants, 280
continuing unable to raise the standards of the college, she
resigns from the faculty and the hospital is discontinued,
280-286
founds the New England Hospital for Women and Children and becomes
resident, attending and dispensary physician and in charge of the
out-practice, 293, 294
details of out-practice; night calls, 328, 329
continuous growth of this hospital and addition of assisting and
coöperating medical women necessitate moving to larger quarters
and favor her plans for specially designed buildings, 329, 333,
334, 352-354, 356-360, 493-495
she buys a horse and carriage, 335
for a second time she is refused admission to the Massachusetts
Medical Society because of her sex, 394
opening of the new hospital buildings enables her to expand her
already existing training school into the first general training
school for nurses regularly organized in America, this school
being under the direction of Dr. Susan A. Dimock, 360-364
serious effects of overwork oblige her to take first vacation in
fifteen years; goes to Europe, 366-368
joins in the movement to check tendency towards the lowering of
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