When Elizabeth Blackwell took her stand for thorough medical education for women, she felt the imperative need of clinical instruction for them. No hospital in America would give to women students of medicine any opportunity to see the work done in it.
The other hospitals, which have been established since these pioneers, have followed their plans so nearly that but few exceptions need be made to the general account. While I cannot be sure that my list is complete, I give the following names of hospitals known to me, similar in character and methods:
New York Infirmary, 1857.[[198]]
Women’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 1860.
New England Hospital for Women and Children, 1862.[[198]]
Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, 1865.
Pacific Dispensary and Hospital for Women and Children.
Ohio Hospital.
Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis.
The hospital in Chicago, like other promising children of the East transplanted to the West, has outgrown its parents, and is now the largest institution of its kind in this country, and probably in the world. It has eighty beds.