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.

Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edited by Claire Brock

Volume 1 – Debates

Volume 1 - Introduction

1. Samuel Gregory, Letters to Ladies In Favor of Female Physicians For Their Own Sex, 3rd edition (Boston: New England Female Medical College, 1856).

2. William Dale, The Present State of the Medical Profession in Great Britain and Ireland, With Remarks on the Preliminary and Moral Education of Medical and Surgical Students (London: A.W. Bennett, 1860), frontispiece image of ‘The “Upas” of the Medical Profession’.

3. ‘Lady Doctors’, in Jennie June, Jennie Juneiana: Talks on Women’s Topics (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), pp. 115-117.

4. Thomas Markby, Medical Women (London: Harrison, 1869).

5. A Woman Physician and Surgeon [Mary Edwards Walker], Unmasked, or The Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen (Philadelphia: Wm. H. Boyd, 1878).

6. Walter Rivington, The Medical Profession: Being the Essay to Which Was Awarded the First Carmichael Prize of £200 By the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (Fannin & Co.: Dublin, 1879), pp. 134-138.

7. Emma Hosken Woodward, Men, Women, and Progress (London: Dulau and Co., 1885), pp. 119-141.

8. ‘Physical Society’, Guy’s Hospital Gazette (5 December 1891), pp. 290-292

9. Arabella Kenealy, ‘How Women Doctors are Made’, Ludgate, IV (May 1897), pp. 29-35.

10. ‘Pioneer Women Doctors: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, Dr Garrett Anderson, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake’, in Edwin A. Pratt, Pioneer Women in Victoria’s Reign: Being Short Histories of Great Movements (London: George Newnes, Limited, 1897), pp. 92-117.

11. Isabel Thorne, Sketch of the Foundation and Development of the London School of Medicine for Women (London: Printed by G. Sharrow, 1905).

12. Mary Scharlieb, The Seven Lamps of Medicine: Inaugural Address Delivered at the London School of Medicine for Women, October 1, 1887 (Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation by Horace Hart, 1888), and A Woman’s Words to Women On the Care of Their Health in England and in India (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1895), pp. 1-32.

13. ‘Lady Doctors. Increasing Demand for Their Services. Some Objections. The Question of “Nerves”’, Observer (8 September 1907), p. 3.

14. F. Howard Marsh, ‘Scarcity of Doctors’, Cambridge Review (24 February 1915), pp. 221-222

15. Beatrice Harraden, ‘Women Doctors in the War’, Windsor Magazine, XLIII (December 1915-May 1916), pp. 175-193

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Volume II: Medical Women

Volume II - Introduction

1. F.I. ‘The Medical Wife’, Medical Times and Gazette, II (4 September 1875), p. 283.

2. Major-General G.G. Alexander, CB, ‘And There Was Light’ and Grouped on the Lawn’, in Dr Victoria: A Picture from the Period, three volumes (London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1881), pp. 175-197, 198-222.

3. Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg), Peace with Honour (London and Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons, 1897); (Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1902), pp. 1-14, 103-137, 169-186, 255-274, 330-349, 349-413.

4. Julia Grice, ‘A Maiden Effort’, B. Rosalie Slaughter, ‘One Short Hour’, Dr Gertrude A. Walker, ‘“The Greatest of These is Love”’, Dr Hester A. Hewlings, ‘Dr Honora’, 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. 43-52, 66-79, 80-107, 133-149.

5. L.M.C. Armstrong, Gertrude Mason, M.D. Or The Lady Doctor. A Farce in One Act for Female Characters Only (New York: Harold Roorbach, 1898).

6. Cornelia Sorabji, ‘Behind the Purdah’, Macmillan’s Magazine, LXXXII:489 (July 1900), pp. 193-200; reproduced in Love and Life Behind the Purdah (London: Fremantle & Co., 1901).

7. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Dr Ellen (New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1908), pp. 40-49, 187-204, 218-242

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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.

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Volume IV – Patient Perspectives

Volume IV - Introduction

1. Jessie C. Farmer, ‘Shall Female Physicians Treat Male Patients’, California Medical Journal, 9 (1888), pp. 462-464.

2. J. William White, The Supposed Curative Effect of Operations Per Se, reprinted from Annals of Surgery, 14.2 and 14.3 (August and September 1891), pp. 81-119, 161-198.

3. ‘The New Hospital for Women, and What Mrs Brown Saw There. By Her Neighbour’, Queen, 10 (September 1892), pp. 62-63.

4. ‘Medicine. An Eminent Lady Doctor’, in Professional Women Upon Their Professions. Conversations Recorded by Margaret Bateson (London: Horace Cox, 1895), pp. 28-31.

5. May Thorne, ‘The After-Effects of Abdominal Section’, British Medical Journal, 1:988 (4 February 1899), pp. 264-265.

6. ‘The Gentlewoman’s Opinion: On the Lady Doctor’, Gentlewoman (19 October 1907), p. 20.

7. Selected Contributions from Dr X.Y.Z., ‘Talks with the Doctor’, Woman Worker, August-December 1908: 7 August, p. 266; 14 August, p. 290; 21 August, pp. 314; 28 August, p. 340; 4 September, p. 364; 11 September, p. 388; 18 September, p. 406; 25 September, p. 436; 2 October, p. 456; 9 October, p. 480; 16 October, p. 505; 23 October, p. 528; 4 November, p. 576; 11 November, p. 600; 18 November, p. 631; 25 November, p. 650; 2 December, p. 672; 9 December, p. 703; 16 December, p. 723; 23 December, p. 747.

8. ‘New Jersey’, in The Tree of Knowledge. A Document by a Woman (New York: Stuyvesant Press, 1908), pp. 216-228.

9. Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, ‘The Patient’, London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women Magazine, 7:48 (March 1911), pp. 350-358.

10. [Alice Beatty], Medical Tyranny: A Personal Experience (self-published, 1912).

11. Antonio de Navarro, The Scottish Women’s Hospital at the French Abbey of Royaumont (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1917), pp. 187-211.

12. Lady Frances Balfour, Elsie Inglis (London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918), pp. 59-81, 111-136.

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