A Woman's Quest: The life of Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. - Marie E. Zakrzewska

Ware, Dr. John, [254], [255], [256], [498]
Weld, Angelina Grimké (Mrs. Theodore), [149], [150], [198], [201]
Weld, Theodore, [201]
Western Reserve University Medical School (Cleveland Medical College), [115], [121], [123], [124], [125], [126], [127], [131], [134], [163], [168]-[170], [171], [174], [175], [394]
White, Mrs. Mary G., [487]
Whitman, Walt, [167]
Whitney, Dr. W. F., [498]
Whitney, Miss Anne, [197]
Willey, Mr. and Mrs. G., [152], [177]
Withington, Dr. C. F., [498]
Woman, First in America listed officially as specializing in surgery, [336]
First in America appointed as attending surgeon on a hospital staff, [369]
Woman Hater, The, Charles Reade, [490]
Woman in Medicine, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, [339]
Woman’s Hospital, New York, see [New York Woman’s Hospital]
Woman’s Hospital, Philadelphia, see [Philadelphia, Woman’s Hospital of]
Woman’s Journal, The, [322], [428]
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, see [Pennsylvania, Woman’s Medical College of]
Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, [348], [350], [375], [376], [399]
Woman’s Medical Society, New England, see [New England Woman’s Medical Society]
Woman’s Rights Movement, [47], [131], [134], [138], [153], [156], [157], [202], [212], [245], [297], [459], [488]
Woman’s Rights Movement in London, [410]
Woman’s Right to Labor, A Practical Illustration of, by Caroline H. Dall, xi, [59], [60], [256]
Women and Children, Chicago Hospital for, see [Chicago Hospital for Women and Children]
Women and Children, New England Hospital for, see [New England Hospital for Women and Children]
Women and Children, New York Infirmary for, see [New York Infirmary for Women and Children]
Women of attainment, Why not monuments in Westminster Abbey to English, [404]
Women physicians in England, Training of, compared with that in America, [405]-[409]
Women’s Club, New England, see [New England Women’s Club]
Women’s, Club, Worcester (Mass.), [436]
Women’s College, Newnham (Cambridge, Eng.), [480]
Worcester (Mass.), Women’s Club, see [Women’s Club, Worcester]
Wright, Mrs., [134]
Würtzer, Dr., [224]
Wyman, Dr. Morrill, [385], [392]

Zakrzewska, Marie E., M.D.
birth, [4]
ancestry, [483]
recollections of early childhood, [3]-[7]
beginning of school life,
conflicts, friendships, prizes,
contacts with mental and physical illness, her mother begins training as midwife,
begins to read medical books, [8]-[25]
end of school life, resorts to father’s library, [26]
training in housework, dressmaking, nursing, French, housekeeping and assisting in mother’s practice, [26]-[34]
studies midwifery privately under Professor Schmidt, [36]
enters school at Royal Hospital Charité as student and assistant teacher, [42]
repeatedly declines father’s choice for marriage, [51], [66]
appointed Accoucheuse en chef, [52], [65]
resigns position and emigrates to America to organize a woman’s hospital, [66]-[72]
arrives in New York, [73]-[83]
disappointed in professional plans she becomes self-supporting in business, [83]-[105], [115]-[118]
her meeting with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell reopens the medical path, [108]-[110], [114]
assists Dr. Blackwell in dispensary of New York Infirmary, [114]-[115]
enters Western Reserve Medical College (Cleveland), [123]
learns details of the professional and social opposition to women physicians, students and practitioners, [125]-[131]
meets men and women noted in all phases of advanced thought, [134], [138], [146], [149]-[153], [160]
first visit to Boston, [149]
receives degree of M.D., [168]
returns to New York where no one is willing to rent her an office, [78];
begins practice in Dr. 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 standards for the medical education of women, and towards opening to women the great medical schools of America, [373]-[387], [398]-[399], [401]-[403], [424]-[428], [435]-[437], [448]
assists in forming the New England Hospital Medical Society and becomes its first president, [385]
declines to apply a third time for admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society, this society now deciding to admit women, [392]-[395]
goes to Europe again for vacation and investigates the progress of medical women in England, [404]-[411]
resigns as attending physician, becoming advisory physician, [416]
her private life, [457]-[466]
celebrates her seventieth birthday, [470]
her acceptance of the inevitable, [471]-[474]
her death, [474]
her farewell message, [474]-[478]
addresses, letters and writings,
The Study of Medicine, [259]
Hospitals; Their History, Designs and Needs, [312]
On the Problem of the Doctor in Charging Fees, [315]
On Charity, [315]
On the Golden Rule, [316]
A Lesson, [316]
Another True Story, [322]
The Medical Education of Women, [375]
A Moral Code for Women, [417]
Should Women Study Medicine?, [424]
What’s in a Name?, [428]
The Emancipation of Woman: Will It Be a Success?, [442]
Letters to Dr. Lucy E. Sewall, [300]-[312], [348], [367], [412]
On the opening of the new buildings of the New England Hospital, [356]
On the question of Harvard University opening a separate medical school for women, [380]
Declining to apply a third time for admission to the Massachusetts Medical Society, having been refused twice on account of her sex, [393]
Should medicines which cause anesthesia, emesis or prostration ever be administered to refractory prisoners to enforce obedience through their action?, [396]
Letter to Mrs. Cheney and others, [404]
On the absence in Westminster Abbey of any monument to a woman of attainment, [405]
On the abuse of the word “lady,” [405]
On the progress of medical women in England, [405]
Comparison between earlier and later women medical students, [413]
On the increasing work of the Hospital under women surgeons, [438]
On her attitude as a critic, [447]
Against the admission to the New England Hospital of women students of the Boston University Medical School (that being then a school of homeopathy), [448]
On the reciprocal relation of the medical staff and the board of directors of the New England Hospital, [449]
On a question of hospital discipline, [451]
Letter to an ambitious colleague whose feelings have been hurt, [453]
On the relation of the Dispensary to confidence in women surgeons, [468]
On the laying of the corner stone of the Ednah D. Cheney surgical building, [469]
Farewell message to be read at her funeral service, [474]
Zurich, University of, see [University of Zurich]

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Transcriber’s Notes

[Page 120]: “to lecures in 1851” changed to “to lectures in 1851”

[Page 327:] “especially on rainly days” changed to “especially on rainy days”

Missing period were added at the end of a few sentences.

The index reference for [Dr. Elder] was corrected to 211 (instead of 21).

Footnotes [28] and [29] were numbered and moved to the Notes section with the other footnotes. All other footnote numbers have been retained as in the original, though they appear out of sequence in the original text.

The cover image was created by the transcriber from the title page and is placed in the public domain.