Medical women of America : a short history of the pioneer medical women of America and a few of their colleagues in England / by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead.

  • Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell, 1867-1941.
Date:
1933
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Credit: Medical women of America : a short history of the pioneer medical women of America and a few of their colleagues in England / by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and at New York University. Whereas in 1900 there were in this country only two medical women teaching medicine to classes of men and women—Dr. Eliza Mosher in the department of hygiene at the University of Michigan and Rachel Yarros, chief in that of obstetrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago—by 1930 there were thirty medical wo¬ men holding similar positions in the United States. There were at that time about 8,000 women doctors listed in the Directory and 154,830 men, all supposed to be in active practice. Among the well-known teachers in medical schools, whether co-educational or for women only, since the days of the pio¬ neers, we find Elizabeth Bass at Tulane, professor of pathology at the graduate school, Rachel Yarros and Bertha Van Hoosen and Alice Hamilton and Florence Sabin and Elizabeth Hurdon and Esther Boring Richards, and Martha M. Eliot, all teach¬ ing men as well as women. Not only as teachers do we find women filling the highest positions in the gift of medical institutions but as model labo¬ ratory investigators, among whom, taken at random, should be mentioned Gladys Dick, Louise Pearce, Florence Sabin, Leda J. Stacy, Martha Wollstein, Georgine Luden, Maude E. S. Ab¬ bott, and others who are investigating epidemic diseases, ana¬ tomical questions, cancer problems, and other exceedingly im¬ portant subjects with the care and skill of the most able men. XIII. Women Admitted to Medical Societies Organized by Men.—Emma L. Call, in 1884, to the Massachusetts Society.—Sarah Hackett Stevenson, a Delegate to the American Medical Association in 1871.—Lillian South, Vice-¬ President of the A. M. A. in 1910.—Women in Special Medical Associations. While touching on the subject of the admission of medical women to the special societies organized by men for their own benefit we may be amused by recalling that when Nancy Talbot- Clark was practicing in Boston, licensed under her diploma from the men’s college at Western Reserve University, she applied in 1853 for admission to the Suffolk County Medical Society and thus threw its members into “dreadful consterna-