Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Dr Claire Brock is Associate Professor in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests are in the history of science and medicine, with a focus on women’s place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Volume III – Global Experiences Volume III - Introduction 1. A Practical Illustration of ‘Woman’s Right to Labor’; or A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia, Caroline H. Dall, ed. (Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1860), pp. 85-163. 2. Frances Hoggan, Medical Women for India (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1882). 3. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D., A Book of Medical Discourses – In Two Parts (Boston: Cashman, Keating & Co., 1883), pp. 1-4; pp. 120-144. 4. Emily Ruete, née Princess of Oman and Zanzibar, Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), pp. 208-217. 5. Rukhmabai, ‘Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal to the British Government’, New Review, 3:16 (September 1890) pp. 263-269. 6. Mrs Ashley Carus-Wilson (Mary L.G. Petrie, BA, Lond), The Medical Education of Women (Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1895). 7. Dr Kate C. (Hurd) Mead, ‘Reminiscences of Medical Study in Europe’, in Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897), pp. 108-122. 8. Photograph of the Taylor Lane Hospital Operating Room (dated 1899), Dr Matilda A. Evans Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture. 9. ‘Dr Lilian Violet Cooper’, in Queensland, 1900. A Narrative of Her Past, Together with Biographies of Her Leading Men (Brisbane: W.H. Wendt & Co., 1900), p. 175. 10. Lillias Hamilton, M.D., ‘Something about Medical Work in Afghanistan’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine 18 (January 1901), pp. 726-730. 11. Lillie E.V. Saville, ‘Notes from my Case-Book, 1902’, London Mission, Peking, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine 25 (May 1903), pp. 164-170. 12. Lilian Austen Robinson, ‘Medical Work in Natal’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 28 (May 1904), pp. 249-251. 13. Lillie E.V. Saville, ‘Through Siberia’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 28 (May 1904), pp. 342-346. 14. Lilian V. Cooper, ‘Australian Experiences’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 29 (October 1904), pp. 386-388. 15. Reports of Military Observers Attached to the Armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (October 1 1906) (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906), Part II, pp. 107-108, 146-150. 16. Bertha Van Hoosen, ‘Europe and North Africa’, in Petticoat Surgeon (Chicago: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1947), pp. 158-172. 17. Elizabeth N. MacBean Ross, A Lady Doctor in Bakhtiari Land (London: Leonard Parsons, 1921), pp. 9-24, 88-96, 97-108, 154-160. 18. Mrs St Clair Stobart, War and Women, From Experience in the Balkans and Elsewhere (1913), pp. 62-74, 109-133. 19. Mary Frances Billington, The Red Cross in War: Women’s Part in the Relief of Suffering (London, New York, and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), pp. 7-13, 181-185. 20. Alice M. Benham, ‘Experiences with a Red Cross Hospital in Belgium’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, X:61 (July 1915), pp. 74-79; Index