CONTENTS

PART I
(1829-1862)

CHAPTERPAGE
Berlin
Foreword[ix-xi]
[I.]Some recollections of childhood[3-7]
[II.]School life begins[8-15]
[III.]First knowledge of hospitals and reading of medical books[16-19]
[IV.]School life ends[20-25]
[V.]Learns all details of household work; then spends most of her time reading in her father’s library; drifts into assisting her mother, who has become a trained midwife[26-34]
[VI.]After regular course receives diploma from School for Midwives and becomes assistant teacher in the Royal Hospital Charité[35-45]
[VII.]Is appointed Accoucheuse en chef and succeeds Dr. Schmidt as teacher of midwifery[46-54]
[VIII.]Resigns her position[55-65]
[IX.]Decides to go to America to help establish a woman’s hospital, her thoughts turned to Philadelphia[66-72]
New York
[X.]Impressions and experiences on landing—Unable to go to Philadelphia or to establish a practice in New York, she builds up a business in fancy goods[73-91]
[XI.]Social relations[92-98]
[XII.]Meets Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell[99-106]
[XIII.]Goes to Cleveland Medical School to acquire the title of M.D.[107-119]
Cleveland
[XIV.]Difficulties encountered by women medical students in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Edinburgh (Scotland)[120-131]
[XV.]Dr. Harriot K. Hunt’s attempt to study at Harvard Medical School and her practice in Boston[132-143]
[XVI.]First visit to Boston—Meets many noted men and women[144-158]
[XVII.]An interesting week-end near Cleveland—Meets Ralph Waldo Emerson—Receives the degree of M.D.[159-175]
New York
[XVIII.]Impossible for a woman physician to rent an office or to be admitted for study to a hospital or dispensary—Visits Boston to ask money to open the New York Infirmary for Women and Children—Visit to Philadelphia determines the building of the Woman’s Hospital there[176-194]
[XIX.]Frequent guest at the variety of social “circles” then existing in New York[195-208]
[XX.]Opening of the New York Infirmary wards and dispensary, with Dr. Zakrzewska as resident physician and superintendent—Mobbing of the Infirmary following death of a patient[209-219]
[XXI.]Incident of Dr. J. Marion Sims—Second mobbing of the Infirmary—First attempt at establishing a training school for nurses[220-234]
Boston
[XXII.]Removes to Boston to become professor of obstetrics in the New England Female Medical College and to establish a hospital department[235-242]
[XXIII.]Meets opposition in her attempts to elevate the standards of the college[243-258]
[XXIV.]Her “Introductory Lecture”[259-270]
[XXV.]Refused admission to Massachusetts Medical Society because she is a woman—Militant ostracism of women by Philadelphia County Medical Society, which tries to crush the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania—She insists medical students must be trained practically as well as theoretically—Continuing unable to elevate the standards of the college, she resigns from the faculty and the hospital is discontinued[271-287]

PART II
(1862-1902)

CHAPTER PAGE
[XXVI.] Founding of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, with Dr. Zakrzewska as first resident and attending physician [291-298]
[XXVII.] Letters to her first Boston student, Dr. Lucy E. Sewall [299-313]
[XXVIII.] Two stories illustrating her broad common sense methods of studying and treating patients [314-327]
[XXIX.] Incident of Dr. Horatio R. Storer, the only man ever appointed on the attending staff—For the first time in America the name of a woman is listed officially as specializing in surgery, Dr. Anita E. Tyng being appointed assistant surgeon [328-344]
[XXX.] Land bought in Roxbury for new Hospital buildings—Dr. Helen Morton—Sophia Jex-Blake [345-355]
[XXXI.] New Hospital buildings completed—First general Training School for Nurses in America definitely organized—Dr. Susan Dimock—First Hospital Social Service in America organized in connection with the Maternity [356-365]
[XXXII.] Dr. Zakrzewska goes to Europe for her first vacation in fifteen years—Dr. C. Annette Buckel [366-372]
[XXXIII.] Attempts by Dr. Zakrzewska and the other leading pioneer medical women to keep the educational standard for medical women from being lowered—Opening of the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary—Movement to open to women one of the great medical schools for men, with special reference to Harvard [373-387]
[XXXIV.] Opening of the Massachusetts Medical Society to women—Dr. Zakrzewska declines to present herself a third time for admission after having been twice refused because she was a woman [388-397]
[XXXV.] Association for the Advancement of the Medical Education of Women—Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi—The New England Hospital establishes District Nursing in its out-practice—Dr. Zakrzewska leads another attempt to persuade Harvard to admit women to its medical school [398-415]
[XXXVI.] Dr. Zakrzewska replies to the question, “Should Women Study Medicine?”—Her Opinion on “What’s in a Name?” [416-434]
[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]