| 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] |
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.
And for this reason I know that this story may be of use to others, by encouraging those who timidly shrink from the field of action, though endowed with all that is necessary to enable them to come forth and do their part in life.
The fact that a woman of no extraordinary powers can make her way, by the simple determination that whatever she can do she will do, must inspire those who are fitted to do much, yet who do nothing because they are not accustomed to determine and decide for themselves.
I do not intend to weary you with details of my childhood, as I think that children are generally very uninteresting subjects of conversation to any except their parents, who naturally discover what is beautiful and attractive in them and appreciate what is said that corresponds to their own feelings. I shall therefore tell you only a few facts of this period of my life, which I think absolutely necessary to illustrate my character and nature.