Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Name: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Author: Blackwell, Elizabeth

Blackwell, Elizabeth

Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910; Women physicians -- United States -- Biography

Searching for a College—Application to Colleges
     of Philadelphia and New York—Interviews with
     Professors—Anatomical Study with Dr. Allen—Lectures at Dr.
     Warrington’s—Application to other Schools—Joyful Result—Life
     at College—Residence in Blockley Almshouse—Graduation            58


                               CHAPTER IV

                            STUDY IN EUROPE

                                  1849

     Glimpse of the Black Country—Visit to Medical Institutions
     of Birmingham—Stay in London—Fashionable Life—Visits:
     to Dr. Carpenter, to Professor Owen, to St. Thomas’s
     Hospital, to Dr. Wilkinson—Leave for Paris—Descriptive
     Letters—Interview with Lamartine—Interview with Police
     Official, with M. Louis—Difficulties to be overcome—Political
     Troubles in Paris—Entrance into La Maternité—Severe
     Life there—Friendship with the _Interne_—A _Sortie_ and
     Hypnotic _Séance_—Serious Accident—Visit to Gräfenberg—Life
     there—First Patient—Study in London—Admission to St.
     Bartholomew’s—Visit to Rev. Dr. Leifchild—Hospital
     Experiences—Medical Scepticism awakens—Letter to Dr. S.
     H. Dickson—Social Relaxation—Woman’s Rights Movement in
     the United States—Visit to Miss Nightingale—Visit to Lady
     Byron—Opening of the Great Exhibition—Anxious Discussion
     as to remaining in England—Farewell Visits—Last Days in
     England                                                          96


                               CHAPTER V

                       PRACTICAL WORK IN AMERICA

                                  1851

     Settlement in New York—First Medical Consultation—Lectures
     on the Physical Education of Girls—Formation of
     Independent Dispensary—Quaker Help—Incorporation of the
     New York Infirmary, 1854—Letters descriptive of Early
     Difficulties—Purchase of House—Adoption of Child—First
     Drawing-room Address—Sister resolves to study—Letters to
     her whilst in Europe—Amusing Experience with Dr. Simpson
     of Edinburgh—Joined by Dr. Emily Blackwell in New York          190


                               CHAPTER VI

                           ENGLAND REVISITED

                                  1858

     Letter from Paris—Acquaintance with Dr. Trélat of La
     Salpêtrière—Addresses given in England—Result of London
     Addresses—Circular for proposed Hospital—Letters from
     London—Registered as English Physician, 1859—Reasons for
     returning to New York—Work there continued—Civil War—Ladies’
     Sanitary Aid Association established—Incidents of the
     War—Establishment of Infirmary Medical School—Letters
     from Miss Elizabeth Garrett—Sanitary Work of the New York
     Infirmary                                                       213


                              CHAPTER VII

                           RETURN TO ENGLAND

                                  1869

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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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