Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M D 1842 1906
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M. D. 1842 -1906
Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M. D. 1842 -1906 • Physician, Writer, and Suffragist • Born London to American parents, returned to NYC in 1848 • Early education at home, then new public school for girls • Published 2 short stories in Atlantic Monthly at age 18 & 19 • Studied Greek, Science, and Medicine privately by Elizabeth Blackwell • Civil War service as medical aide • New York College of Pharmacy in 1863 • MD from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1864 • • Later called Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania École de Médecin of the Unv of Paris - graduated 1871 2 nd women to get her degree from there • Medical practice NYC • 2 nd woman member of Medical Society County of NY • Prof new Women’s Medical College of the NY Infirmary • Women’s Medical Assoc of NYC. She organized it & was President 1874 -1903 • 1 st woman in Academy of Medicine - by one vote
Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M. D. 1842 -1906 • Married Abraham Jacobi, Father of American Pediatrics, 1873 • 3 children - 1 survived who she educated • Wrote > 120 medical papers & 9 books • Many letters to the Medical Record, Paris (1867 -1870) Am J of Obs & Dis of Women 1874 • Pathogeny of Infantile Paralysis. American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women. 1874 Referenced: West, Brown-Séquard, Charcot, Duchenne, Vulpian • In Pepper’s System of Medicine (1888) Infantile Spinal Paralysis (Volume 5) Pseudo-Hypertrophic Paralysis (Volume 4) • Shall Women Practice Medicine? North American Review (1882) • Other books: • Essays on Hysteria, Brain-tumor, and Some Other From Pepper’s System of Medicine 1888 Cases of Nervous Disease (1888) Essays on Hysteria, Brain-tumor, and Some • The Value of Life (1879) Other Cases of Nervous Disease
System of Medicine by William Pepper (1888) in 5 volumes • . Mary Putnam Jacobi Pseudo-Hypertrophic Paralysis Mary Putnam Jacobi Infantile Spinal Paralysis
Q 5: What was Mary Putnam Jacobi famous for outside of medicine? A. B. C. D. Painter Novels Women’s Suffrage Movement Musician ANSWER: C – Women’s Suffrage Movement
Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M. D. 1842 -1906 • “The Question of Rest for Women during Menstruation” won the Boylston Prize at Harvard University ― Refuted the supposed physical limitations of women. Provided tables, statistics, and sphygymographic tracings of pulse rate, force, and variations to illustrate the stability of a women’s health, strength, and agility throughout her monthly cycle • "Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage (1894) • In 1894 the women's suffrage amendment to NY State constitution was repealed • Subsequently & in protest, she was 1 of 6 suffragist who founded the League for Political Education
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M. D. Last Paper • She was diagnosed with a brain tumor • She documented her own symptoms • Descriptions of the Early Symptoms of the Meningeal Tumor Compressing the Cerebellum From which the Author Died. Written by Herself • Died in NYC on June 10, 1906 • Buried in Brooklyn
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