XXXVII. Johns Hopkins becomes the first great medical school in America to admit women on the same terms as men--The New England Hospital adds new buildings for the Maternity and for Nurses--Because of misbehavior of men students Columbian University of Georgetown closes its doors to women--Dr. Zakrzewska writes on “The Emancipation of Women: Will It Be a Success?” 435-446 XXXVIII. Dr. Zakrzewska’s attitude as a critic: her judgment on various details of Hospital policy 447-456 XXXIX. Her private life; her home; her friends; her ethics--Men physicians who served as consultants at the New England Hospital 457-467 XL. The New England Hospital adds new buildings for the Dispensary and for the Surgical department--Celebration of Dr. Zakrzewska’s seventieth birthday by a reception and by the naming of the original main building “The Zakrzewska Building”--Her retirement from practice--Her failing health--Her characteristic acceptance of the inevitable--Her death--Her funeral service--Her farewell message 468-478 AFTERWORD 479-482 NOTES 483-498 BIBLIOGRAPHY 499 INDEX 501-514 ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph thought to have been taken some time in the ’60’s) _Frontispiece_ Second location of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston Page 331 Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph taken about 1870) 352 First buildings of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, erected 1872 (third location) 357 Portrait of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. (From a photograph taken in 1896) 468 PART I (1829-1862) CHAPTER I _Her reason for writing autobiography, to encourage average woman to determine and decide for herself to do whatever she can--Polish-German ancestry--Childhood in Berlin--Recollection of experience when nineteen months old--Walks nine miles when twenty-six months old. (Birth to five years of age: 1829-1834.)_ I am not a great personage, either through inherited qualifications or through the work that I have to show to the world; yet you may find, in reading this little sketch, that with few talents and very moderate means for developing them, I have accomplished more than many women of genius and education would have done in my place, for the reason that confidence and faith in their own powers were wanting.