Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. The letter n after a page number refers to a footnote.
Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.
abortion, 26, 136–37, 138
Allen, Jonathan Moses, 39
amalgamation, 81
American Medical Association, 50, 157–58
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, see Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth
Anderson, James Skelton, 250
Anthony, Susan B., 184, 190–91
Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, 16, 110
Arabia (Royal Mail Steamship), 160
Ashmead, William, 38
Associationism, 22, 34, 66, 69, 73, 80
Barry, James, 240n
Battle of Cold Harbor, 232
Beecher, Catharine, 19, 142
Beecher, Henry Ward, 3, 19, 201–2, 244
Beecher, Lyman, 19, 21
Bell, Acton (Anne Brontë), 109n
Bell, Currer (Charlotte Brontë), 109, 109n
Bell, Ellis (Emily Brontë), 109n
Bellevue Hospital, 105-52, 204, 206
Bellows, Eliza, 144
Bellows, Henry Whitney, 144, 226, 228–29
Benedict, Nathan Dow, 61–62, 63
Berkshire Medical Institution, 150
Billing, Archibald, 240
Binney, Amos, 179n
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 210, 213, 246, 249, 252, 266–67
Blackwell, Ann, 9
Blackwell, Anna
in Birmingham, England, 87, 88, 164
in Bristol, England, 6, 7–8, 9, 10
chronic ill health, 34, 88, 109, 116, 171
in Cincinnati, 20
as correspondent of The Una, 175n
faith in alternative medicine, 34, 36–37, 38, 88, 106, 257
George Sand translation, 73
in Hastings, 254
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 187
in Jersey City, 13–14, 16
journalism, 34, 106, 175, 193, 211
Kenyon’s marriage and, 121
move to Birmingham, England, 73
in Paris with Elizabeth, 93–94, 99, 103, 105–7, 108–9, 112
photograph, 105
reaction to Howard’s death, 239, 241
séances, 93, 99, 257
at St. Ann’s in Flushing, New York, 24–26, 30, 33–34
teaching position in Vermont, 14, 18
tension with Elizabeth, 13–14
tutoring of siblings, 13
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (Nettie), 189, 189–91, 192, 194, 210–11
Blackwell, Barbara, 9
Blackwell, Cornelia (“Neenie”), 259, 260
Blackwell, Elizabeth
abortion, attitude toward, 137
admission to medical college, 41–45
antislavery beliefs, 16–17, 24, 30, 32–33, 110–11
applications to medical colleges, 38–40
Asheville, NC, teaching position, 30–33
attitude toward women, 66–69, 123, 143, 180
in Berlin, 113
betweenity, 26, 27
in Birmingham, England, 87–89
at birth of Nettie and Sam’s daughter, 192
at Blockley Almshouse, 59–66, 69–70, 253
in Bristol, England, 5, 6, 7–8, 247
on the British Medical Register, 223, 247, 252, 267
burial in Scotland, 267
Charleston, SC, teaching position, 35–36
in Cincinnati, 18–22, 84
Cincinnati English and French Academy for Young Ladies, 20–21
on Civil War causes, 224
Civil War support efforts, 225–26, 227–30
at Columbia College commencement speeches, 13
community reaction to Elizabeth as student, 46–47, 48, 56–57, 75, 80–81
Contagious Diseases Acts, 253
cottage and sanatorium in Bloomfield, New Jersey, 231, 232
Counsel to Parents, 253–54
death, 266–67, 268
decision to go to England in 1858, 210–13
decision to study medicine, 3, 26–29, 30
departure to England in 1869, 245–47
diagrams of arteries and the uterus, 54, 55
disgust at human biology, 3, 27, 28
dispensary closed, 181
dispensary establishment, 157–58, 162–63
dispensary practice, 181
dissection of a beetle, 32
diverging goals of Emily and, 225, 242–43
Draft Riots and, 231
and Emily (1852–1853), 148–49, 150
to Emily in Henderson, 111
on Emily’s graduation from medical college, 160
Emily viewed as assistant, 142, 209
encouraging Emily to study medicine, 72–73, 84, 124
in England after 1869, 247, 248, 250–57
in England in 1858, 215–17, 219–20, 222–23
Episcopal and Unitarian religion, 21–22
eye infection and recovery, in Paris, 104–9, 112, 116, 240
Fanny Kemble and, 127, 208
first patient examination at Geneva, 53–54
in France in 1858, 214–15
Geneva Medical College admission, 41–45
Geneva Medical College, final examinations, 75, 76
Geneva Medical College, first term, 45–56
Geneva Medical College, graduation and diploma, 75–79
Geneva Medical College, second term, 71–75
Geneva student reactions to, 41–42, 43, 47–48, 49, 56, 75, 76
glass prosthetic left eye, 116, 148, 212
graduation thesis, 63–65, 80, 243
at Gräfenberg sanatorium, 114–16
in Hastings, 254, 255
in Henderson, KY, 23-24, 109-10
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 187, 188
house on East Fifteenth Street, 181–82, 193–94, 204
“How to Keep a Household in Health,” 255–56
Human Element in Sex, The, 254–55
hydropathy, or the “water cure,” 99–100, 111–12, 114–16
ideas about hygiene, 65, 130, 139, 146, 217, 256
infirmary opening in 1857, 1–3, 200–203
influenza, 74–75
interest in spiritualism, 256–57
on Italian Riviera, 218
in Jersey City, 12–17
journey to Paris, 85–91
Kenyon’s marriage and, 121
with Kitty in England after 1870, 252, 254, 255, 256, 259
Kitty’s addition to household, 182–84
lack of intimacy with others, 28–29
Lady Byron and, 127–28, 148, 208–9, 215
Laws of Life, The, 144, 163, 185–86, 215, 226, 240
lectures on raising healthy children, 142–44, 215
lectures on women’s health and women doctors, 215–16, 219–20
in Liverpool, England, 87
in London, 89–90, 120–27, 128–31
with Marian in New York, 40, 133–34, 145–46, 150, 182, 191, 194
on Marie’s cervical stenosis treatment, 172–73
Maternité, La, 94–95, 96–103, 99, 104–8, 109, 240
medical studies with John Dickson, 30, 32–33
medical studies with Samuel Dickson, 35
medicine as a moral crusade, 30, 39, 252–53, 256
meeting Abraham Lincoln, 233
National Health Society, 252
as naturalized citizen of United States, 84–85
with Nightingale in England, 128–30, 216–18, 220
on Nightingale’s view of women’s role in health, 130, 174, 217
“On the Medical Education of Women,” 196, 199
opinion of Paris, 91–92, 95
opinion of women’s medical colleges, 139, 235, 236, 237
in Philadelphia, after graduation, 82–83, 84–85
in Philadelphia, before graduation, 36, 38, 40, 43–44, 58–66, 69–70, 82–83
photographs, 149, 255, 267
plan to study in Paris, 83–85
practice at University Place, New York, 132–33, 144–46, 156
in Punch, 47, 95–96
refusal to borrow money, 207–8
regular (allopathic) vs. alternative medicine, 38, 81, 124, 139–40
at Rock House, 254, 255
search for medical instruction in Paris, 92–94
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 111, 121–24, 122, 128, 130–31, 150
teaching about hygiene, 142, 163, 225, 237, 242, 243, 256
temperance movement and, 13, 99
tension with Anna, 13–14
trip to England in 1866, 239
trip to Washington as tourist, 232–34
will written in 1869, 247
Women’s Central Association for Relief, 227–30
women’s rights movement and, 67–69, 126, 143
see also New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children; Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
Blackwell, Elizabeth (eighteenth-century Scotswoman), 103
Blackwell, Ellen
in Bristol, England, 6
in Cincinnati, 18
Cornelia (“Neenie”) adopted by, 259, 260
with Elizabeth in New York, 133
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
as Emily’s housekeeper, 259, 260
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 188
Kitty and, 213, 214
National Woman’s Rights Convention, 126
studying painting in Europe, 193–94, 213
Blackwell, Emily
antislavery beliefs, 16, 110–11
attending surgeon at infirmary, 207
Bellevue Hospital, 150–52
in Birmingham, England, 163–64
in Bristol, England, 6
burial on Martha’s Vineyard, 267–68
care for sick mother, 119–20
in Cincinnati, 18, 21, 34–35, 109, 117–20, 139–40
Civil War support efforts, 225–26, 227–30
Cleveland Medical College, 141, 159–60, 179
as college faculty and administrator, 243, 247–48, 257, 262–63, 264–66
complaints about Zakrzewska, 221–22
cottage and sanatorium in Bloomfield, New Jersey, 231, 232
Daniel Brainard and, 152–55, 156–57, 158, 159
death and eulogies, 266–67, 268
diverging goals of Elizabeth and, 225, 242–43
in Edinburgh, 165, 166–75, 177, 179, 181
Elizabeth Cushier and, 260–62, 266
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
on Elizabeth’s recovered health, 109
on Elizabeth’s trip to England in 1869, 246
encouraged by Elizabeth to study medicine, 72–73, 84, 124
graduation from medical college, 160, 195
Hannah (“Nannie”) adopted by, 259
In Henderson, KY, 109-11, 117
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 187
house on East Fifteenth Street, 204, 220
house on Twentieth Street, 259–60, 265
infirmary opening in 1857, 2, 3, 202–3
in Jersey City, 14, 16
journey to Edinburgh, 161–64
lack of empathy, 3–4, 120
lecture series for women, 210
love of nature, 141–42, 162, 164
management of infirmary, 210, 212–13, 220–23, 248
Maternité, La, 192
at Minto House, 169, 169–70
in New York (1852–1853), 148–49, 150–52
opinion of women’s medical colleges, 139, 235, 236, 237
photographs, 165, 267
in Punch, 192–93, 193
retreat at York Cliffs, Maine, 262
return from Europe, 1856, 192–93, 194, 195
Rush Medical College, Chicago, 146–47, 151–53, 158–59
scholarly aptitude, 21, 34
search for a medical college, 139–42, 146–47, 149
self-doubt, 117, 119, 120, 212
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 192
studies in New York, 25–26, 30–31, 33, 34
as surgeon, 207
teaching position in Henderson, 109–11, 117
viewed as Elizabeth’s assistant, 142, 209
warning about Nightingale’s ideas, 218
Women’s Central Association for Relief, 227–30
see also New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children; Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
Blackwell, Emma, 260
Blackwell, Florence, 192, 194, 213
Blackwell, George Washington
birth, 6, 12
Civil War and, 230
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 188
lingering in Cincinnati, 194
marriage to Emma, 260
nickname, 18n
real estate and, 243
Blackwell, Grandfather, 9
Blackwell, Grandmother, 9–10
Blackwell, Hannah Lane
antislavery beliefs, 7
in Bristol, England, 5–6, 7, 8–9, 11
death, 257–58, 259
as Dissenter, 6, 9, 21
with Elizabeth in New York, 133, 191, 194
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
on Elizabeth’s graduation, 79–80
emigration from England, 5–6, 11
Emily’s care for during sickness, 119–20
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 188
in Jersey City, 14
Presbyterian revivalism, 75
Blackwell, Hannah (“Nannie”), 259, 260
Blackwell, Henry
admiration of Emily, 119
antislavery beliefs, 186
Antoinette Brown and, 190
birth of daughter Alice, 210
in Bristol, England, 6
Civil War and, 230
courtship of Lucy Stone, 184–87
desire to join gold rush, 74, 76
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
Elizabeth’s graduation, 76, 77n, 79, 82
to Emily in Henderson, 110
hardware business, 184, 186, 191
home on Martha’s Vineyard, 261–62
at house on East Fifteenth Street, 194
interest in spiritualism, 118
in Jersey City, 14, 118
marriage to Lucy Stone, 187–89, 190
move to New Jersey, 191, 220
outrage at Schroeder’s behavior, 33
photograph, 185
promise to visit at Christmas, 73–74
women’s rights and, 186–87
work after father’s death, 21, 22
Blackwell, Howard
in Birmingham, England, 87, 88, 164
in Bristol, England, 6
death, 239
in India, 192, 193
Kitty and, 213, 214
move to Birmingham, England, 70, 73
trip to Asheville, NC, 30
visit to Geneva College, 73
visit to Philadelphia, 70
Blackwell, James, 11
Blackwell, John, 87, 88
Blackwell, Katharine (Kitty) Barry
addition to Elizabeth’s household, 182–84, 191
Alice Blackwell and, 213, 246, 249, 252, 267
birthdate, 213n
on Civil War nurse recruitment, 228
Draft Riots and, 231
with Elizabeth in England after 1870, 252, 254, 255, 256, 259
after Elizabeth’s death, 267
on Elizabeth’s trip to England in 1869, 246–47
on Emily’s appearance at college graduation, 249
Florence Blackwell and, 191–92, 213
memoir, 184, 231n
at the Nurseries on Randall’s Island, 182–83
photograph, 255
at Rock House, 254, 255
role in the Blackwell clan, 184, 194, 247, 252
trip to England in 1858, 213–14
Blackwell, Kenyon
Emily and, 164, 172, 173, 192
financial help for Elizabeth, 130
marriage, 120–21
at Portway Hall, 87, 88
return to England, 84, 85, 86, 87
rheumatism, 87, 88
visit from England, 69–70, 84
Blackwell, Lucy (Elizabeth’s aunt), 9
Blackwell, Marian
advice to Emily, 145–46
antislavery beliefs, 16
in Bristol, England, 6, 7–8
in Cincinnati, 20, 22
comfort and support for Elizabeth, 45, 134
with Elizabeth in New York, 40, 133, 145–46, 150, 182, 191, 194
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
on Elizabeth’s graduation, 79
fragile health, 22, 134
in Hastings, 254
in Jersey City, 14, 16
National Woman’s Rights Convention, 126
nickname, 8n
photograph, 133
teaching position, 18, 19
Blackwell, Marie de St. Simoncourt, 121, 164, 172, 173–74, 175, 192
Blackwell, Mary, 9, 20
Blackwell, Robert, 138n
Blackwell, Sam (brother of Elizabeth and Emily)
in Bristol, England, 6
children, 191–92, 194, 262
Civil War and, 230
at Columbia College commencement speeches, 13
Elizabeth’s departure to Paris, 84
on Elizabeth’s graduation, 79
on Elizabeth’s loss of an eye, 116
on Elizabeth’s recovered health, 109
hardware business, 184, 191
on Henry’s marriage to Lucy Stone, 187–88
in Jersey City, 14
marriage to Antoinette Brown, 190, 191
move to New Jersey, 191, 220
trip to Asheville, NC, 30
work after father’s death, 21, 22, 28
Blackwell, Sam (brother of Kenyon Blackwell), 87, 89, 192
Blackwell, Samuel (father of Elizabeth and Emily)
antislavery beliefs, 7, 10, 11, 16
in Bristol, England, 6–9, 10–11
death, 19–20, 22
as Dissenter, 6, 9
emigration from England, 5–6, 11
in Jersey City, 12, 16–18
on Long Island, 12
malaria, 12, 19
in New York, 11–12
sugar beets and, 10, 11, 17
sugar refining, 6–7, 11–12, 16, 17
Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), 138n, 204
Blaney, James Van Zandt, 153
Blockel, Madame, 97
Blockley Almshouse, Philadelphia
about, 58–59
Elizabeth at, 59–66, 69–70, 253
suffering of patients, 58–59, 60–61
syphilis ward, 60, 253
bloodletting, 37, 52, 61, 100
Blot, Claude Philibert Hippolyte
care for Elizabeth’s eye infection, 104–5, 112, 240
friendship with Elizabeth, 100–102, 107–8, 109, 112, 113–14, 240
friendship with Emily, 192
marriage, 114
photograph, 101
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Emily and, 164
Florence Nightingale and, 128
friendship with Elizabeth, 125–26, 164, 211, 219
marriage, 211
move to Algiers, 251
Bodichon, Eugène, 211
Boissonneau, Auguste, 212
Boivin, Marie, 81
Bonheur, Rosa, 194
Booth, Mary Louise, 205
Brainard, Daniel, 152–55, 156–57, 158, 159
Brisbane, Albert, 34
British Medical Register, 223, 247, 252, 267
Brook Farm, 34, 37, 146
Brown, Antoinette (Antoinette Blackwell), 189, 189–91, 192, 194, 210–11
Browning, Robert, 194
brucellosis, 216
Bunker, Chang and Eng, 14
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 218n
Burrows, George, 122, 130–31
Byron, Anne Isabella Noel, Lady, 127–28, 148, 160, 208–9, 215
calomel, 52, 60, 123, 154, 174
Cameron, Simon, 228–29
Central Medical College in Syracuse, 139, 236, 241
Channing, William Henry, 21–22, 24, 27, 34
Chapman, John, 127
Charrier, Madeleine-Edmée Clémentine, 97, 98, 103
chloroform, 116, 166, 192, 196
cholera, 5, 12, 58, 95
Christmas Annual (Blackwell anthology), 26, 74
Cincinnati English and French Academy for Young Ladies, 20–21, 22
Cincinnati in 1838, 18–19
Civil War
Battle of Cold Harbor, 232
commutation, 230
Draft Riots, 231
Emancipation Proclamation, 231
Fort Sumter attack, 224, 226
nurse recruitment and training, 226, 227–28, 229
start of, 224
United States Sanitary Commission, 229, 230, 233
Women’s Central Association for Relief, 226–30, 227
Clark, Nancy Talbot, 141, 159, 160, 161, 179, 180
Clarkson, Thomas, 10
Cleveland Medical College, 141, 159–60, 179, 180, 181
Code of Ethics (American Medical Association), 158
Cole, Rebecca J., 242
collyrium, 105
Cooper Institute, 226, 227, 228
Contagious Diseases Acts, 253
Cosmo (ship), 5, 11
Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of their Children in Relation to Sex (Elizabeth Blackwell), 253–54
cross-writing, 14, 15
Crumpler, Rebecca Lee, 242
Currie, James, 65
Cushier, Elizabeth, 260–62, 266
Cushier, Sophie, 261
Dana, Charles, 162
Darrach, William, 38
Dartmouth College, 146–47, 149–50
Davis, Nathan S., 152, 158
Declaration of Sentiments, 67–68
Delamater, John, 141, 159, 160
DeLancey, Margaret, 75, 78
DeLancey, William, 76, 79
de Noailles, Anna Maria Helena Coswell, 212, 218, 223, 231
Desmarres, Louis-Auguste, 116
de Staël, Madame, 12
Dial, The (magazine), 27–28
Dickens, Charles, 200
Dickson, John, 30, 32–33, 35
Dickson, Samuel Henry, 35, 36
dissection
at Geneva College, 54, 71–72
horror felt at the idea, 39, 83
at Jefferson Medical College, 83
at New York Medical College for Women, 244
at Rush Medical College, 153
vivisection, 154, 256
Dissenters from Church of England, 6, 9, 11, 21
Dix, Dorothea, 228, 229–30, 232
Dolley, Sarah, 139, 241
Draft Riots in New York, 231
Dred Scott decision, 207
Dubois, Paul Antoine, 94, 98, 102, 109
Du Bois, W. E. B, 66n
Dudley Castle, 88
du Potet, Jules Denis, Baron, 93–94, 106, 257
Eclectic medical schools, 139, 196, 236, 241
Eclectics, 37, 139, 237
École de Médecine, 92–93
Edgeworth, Maria, 12
Elder, Sarah, 38, 82, 84
Elder, William, 38, 59, 82, 90–91, 202, 232–33
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 127
Emancipation Proclamation, 231
Emmet, Thomas Addis, 199
English Woman’s Journal, 211–12, 219, 221
Ether, as anesthetic, 116, 154
Evans, John, 152, 153
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot), 127
Faraday, Michael, 127
February Revolution of 1848 (France), 90
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), 139, 196, 235, 236, 241, 242
Field, George White, 72, 77, 83
fistula repair, 81n, 180, 195, 260
Flint, Austin, 47, 80, 243
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 127
Fort Sumter, 224, 226
Fourier, Charles, 22, 34, 66, 73
Fowler, Lydia Folger, 139
Fowler, Orson and Lorenzo, 14–15
Fox, Margaretta and Catherine, 117–18
Francis, John Wakefield, 150–51
Freer, Joseph Warren, 153
Fuller, Margaret, 27–28, 69, 133, 138, 217, 249
Gall, Franz Joseph, 14–15
Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth, 219, 239, 240n, 241, 250, 251
Garrison, William Lloyd, 16, 184, 185
Geneva Medical College
admission of Elizabeth, 41–45
description of, 41–42
education standards in 1847, 50–51
Elizabeth’s first term, 45–56
Elizabeth’s second term, 71–75
graduation ceremony in 1849, 75–79
merger with Syracuse University, 42n
oral examinations, 51, 56, 75, 76
rejection of Emily, 140
student reactions to Elizabeth, 41–42, 43, 47–48, 49, 56, 75, 76
germ theory of disease, 63, 65, 80, 253
Girl with a Platter of Fruit (Titian), 113
gonorrhea, 104
gorget, 81n
Gräfenberg sanatorium, 114–16
grave robbers, 39–40, 42
Greeley, Horace, 133, 138, 150, 162, 199
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, 1
Grimké, Sarah and Angelina, 16
Hale, Benjamin, 77
Hamilton’s boardinghouse, 45, 56
Hamlin, Hannibal, 226
heroic medicine, 51, 88
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 188
Hogarth, William, 121
homeopathy, 37
Hôtel-Dieu, 94
“How to Keep a Household in Health” (Elizabeth Blackwell), 255–56
Hue, Clement, 122, 192
Human Element in Sex, The (Elizabeth Blackwell), 254–55
Hunterian Museum, 89–90
Hunt, Harriot K., 46–47
hydropathy, or the “water cure,” 37–38, 65, 99–100, 111–12, 114–16
infirmary, see New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children
Institute for Colored Youth, 242
Io Embraced by Jupiter (Correggio), 113–14
Jackson, Andrew, 17
Jackson, Samuel, 38
Jacobi, Abraham, 258
Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 240–41, 249, 251, 258–59, 260, 261
Jameson, Anna Brownell, 126–27
Jane Eyre (Currer Bell/Charlotte Brontë), 109
Jardin des Plantes, 92
Jarvis, 166, 168, 170
Jefferson Medical College, 82–83
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 245, 250–51
Kauffmann, Angelica, 113
Kelley, William Darrah, 233
Kemble, Fanny, 127, 208
Kirtland, Jared Potter, 160
Kissam, Richard Sharpe, 206–7, 221
Lachapelle, Marie-Louise, 81
La Ford, Corydon, 46, 54, 71
Lane, Charles, 13, 14, 112
Lane, Eliza Major, 13
laudanum, 19, 26, 53, 123, 174
Laws of Life, The (Elizabeth Blackwell), 144, 163, 185–86, 215, 226, 240
Lee, Charles A.
admission of Elizabeth, 41, 42, 44, 82
commencement address, 78, 81–82
Elizabeth’s thesis, 80
Paris visit, 103
pharmacology (materia medica) lectures, 52, 63
in Philadelphia, 82–83
reaction to Elizabeth, 45, 78, 81, 82
leeches, 100, 105, 170
Lee, Robert E., 232, 238
Legouvé, Ernest, 112
L’histoire morale des femmes (Legouvé), 112
Lincoln, Abraham, 224, 226, 231, 233, 237, 238
Little Princess, A (Burnett), 218n
lobelia (“pukeweed”), 37, 52
Lohman, Charles, 134, 135
London School of Medicine for Women, 251
Lovelace, Ada, 127
Lozier, Clemence Sophia, 236, 241
malaria, 12, 19, 63
Mallet, Clarisse, 100, 104, 107
Marie Antoinette, 214
Martha’s Vineyard, 261-62, 267-68
materia medica, 50, 53, 63, 74, 123
Maternité, La (Port-Royal Abbey), 94–95, 96–103, 99, 104–8, 240
Medical College of Ohio, 140
medical schools for women
Eclectic medical schools, 139, 196, 236, 241
Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), 139, 196, 235, 236, 241, 242
London School of Medicine for Women, 251
New England Female Medical College (Boston), 139, 196, 222, 235, 242
New York Medical College for Women, 236–37, 242, 243, 244, 260
opening of coeducational medical schools in 1890s, 264, 265–66
see also Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
medicine
education standards in 1847, 50–51
heroic medicine, 51, 88
Hippocratic humors, elements, and qualities, 51, 52
historical role of women, 29
state of in 1840s, 26–27, 37, 51–53
Men and Women (Browning), 194
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 37, 257
mesmerism, 37, 93, 257
miasma, 63
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 129
Mott, Lucretia, 16
Mussey, Reuben, 140, 146
National Health Society, 252
National Woman’s Rights Conventions, 67–68, 126, 143, 186
New England Female Medical College (Boston), 139, 196, 222, 235, 242
New England Hospital for Women and Children, 241
New York Academy of Medicine, 150, 258, 266
New York Dispensary for Poor Women and Children, 157–58, 162–63, 181
New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children
annual reports, 203, 204, 206, 207
on Bleecker and Crosby, 1, 200, 201, 203–4, 206
commemorative plaque at, 1
diverging goals of Elizabeth and Emily, 225, 242–43
Draft Riots and, 231n
Elizabeth’s refusal to borrow money, 207–8
Emily as attending surgeon, 207
Emily’s management of, 210, 212–13, 220–23, 248
fundraising, 196, 197–99, 200, 210, 246
on Livingston Place, 262
merger with Beekman Downtown Hospital, 265n
mob incidents, 206–7
opening in 1857, 1–3, 200–203, 244
operation in 1857, 204–8
“out-door practice,” 205–6
on Second Avenue, 225
women’s medical education as goal, 195, 196–97, 198, 202, 220, 235
New York Medical College for Women, 236–37, 242, 243, 244, 260
New York University, 182
Nightingale, Florence
birthday, 200
Crimean War, 174–75, 192, 216
with Elizabeth in England, 128–30, 216–18, 220
fame, 192, 211, 212
on hygiene, 130, 217
ideas about sexual purity, 129n, 200–201, 240
and infirmary opening, 201–2
nursing as role for women, 130, 174, 198, 200, 216–17, 227–28
Notes on Nursing (Nightingale), 227
Nurseries on Randall’s Island, 182–83, 184, 214
Oberlin College, 13, 184, 189
Onderdonk, Benjamin Treadwell, 33–34
“On the Medical Education of Women” (Elizabeth Blackwell), 196, 199
Owen, Richard, 90
Paget, James, 111, 122, 122–23, 130–31, 164, 250
Panic of 1857, 207–8
Paris
Anna Blackwell in, 93–94, 99, 103, 105–7, 108–9, 112
as best place to study medicine, 83–84
Elizabeth’s eye infection and recovery, 104–9, 112, 116, 240
Elizabeth’s opinion of, 91–92, 95
Elizabeth’s search for medical instruction, 92–94
Maternité, La (Port-Royal Abbey), 94–95, 96–103, 99, 104–8, 240
Parker, Surgeon to the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, 89
Parkes, Bessie Rayner, 124–26, 131, 184, 192, 211, 219, 221
Pasteur, Louis, 63, 253
pessaries, 171–72, 172, 181
phrenology, 14–16, 92, 102, 233
“Piccino” (Burnett), 218n
Plevins, Charles, 89, 90–91, 120
Portway Hall, 87, 88, 89
Practical Anatomist, The (Allen), 39
Preston, Ann, 236
Priessnitz, Vincent, 111–12, 114–15
puerperal fever, 58, 65, 97
Punch, 47, 95–96, 192–93, 193
purulent ophthalmia, 104, 106, 242
Putnam, George Palmer, 144, 240
Putnam, Mary, see Mary Putnam Jacobi
“Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation, The” (Putnam Jacobi), 258
Randall’s Island, 182–83, 184, 214
Raymond, Henry J., 162, 244–45
Restell, Madame (Ann Trow Summers), 134–38, 137
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 200
Royal College of Surgeons, 89–90
Rush Medical College, 146–47, 151–53, 158–59
Ruskin, John, 194
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 111, 121–24, 122, 128, 130–31, 150, 192
St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, 90
Sand, George, 73
Sanger, Margaret, 134
sanitary visitors, 242, 265
Schifferdecker, Dr., 38
Schroeder, John Frederick, 25, 33–34
Scott, Walter, 8
Scott, Winfield, 227
Second Reform Bill, defeat of, 11
Second Republic (France), 90
Secret Garden, The (Burnett), 218n
Sedgwick, Theodore, 162
Semmelweis, Ignaz, 65
Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention, 67–68, 126
Shirley (Currer Bell/Charlotte Brontë), 109
Simpson, James Young
about, 166, 167, 168
chloroform discovery, 166, 192
Emily’s study with, 160, 164, 167–68, 170–74, 175–76, 181
pessaries, 171–72, 181
Viewbank retreat, 167
Sims, J. Marion, 180, 195–96, 199, 260
smallpox vaccinations, 101
Smith, Barbara Leigh. see Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 125
Smith, James Skivring, 150
Smith, Stephen, 42, 43, 49, 243
Snow, John, 95
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 67, 184
Steward, Susan McKinney, 242
Stone, Lucy
antislavery lectures and views, 184–85, 189, 194
birth of daughter Alice, 210
courted by Henry Blackwell, 184–87
marriage to Henry Blackwell, 187–89, 190
photograph, 185
women’s rights and, 184, 187, 189
Stories Explanatory of the Church Catechism (Sherwood), 8
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 19, 29, 202
Summers, Ann Trow, see Restell, Madame
syphilis, 60, 154, 253
Syracuse, see Central Medical College
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 166
Thavies Inn, 121, 124
Thomsonians, 37, 52, 81
Thomson, Samuel, 37
Three Eras of Woman’s Life, The, 13
Transcendentalism, 22, 24, 27, 34, 37, 133
Treatise on Domestic Economy (Catharine Beecher), 142
trephine, 81n
Trollope, Fanny, 18
Troy Female Seminary (New York), 36
Tyng, Dudley Atkins, 202
typhus (“ship fever”), 63–65, 80, 253
Una, The, 174–75
Unitarian Society, 21–22
United States Sanitary Commission, 229, 230, 233
University of Edinburgh
Emily Blackwell at, 165, 166–75, 177, 179, 181
James Barry and, 240n
Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven, 250–51
“Surgeons’ Hall Riot,” 251
Utilitarians, 135, 138
vaccination, 101, 256
Victoria, Queen, 17, 126, 192
vivisection, 154, 256
Walker, Mary, 251
Warriner, Henry, 118–19
Warrington, Joseph, 36
Webster, James
admission tickets to lectures, 50, 50
anatomy lessons, 45–46, 48–49, 53, 73
at commencement exercises, 76, 77
Willard, Emma, 36, 40
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 27
Woman’s Hospital (New York), 195–96, 199
Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
closing of, 264–66
creation of, 237–39, 242–43
Emily as college faculty and administrator, 243, 247–48, 257, 262–63, 264–66
fire and rebuilding, 262–63
fundraising, 262
opening of, 243–45
program and faculty, 243, 247–48, 258–59
Woman’s Rights Conventions, 67–68, 126, 143, 186
Women’s Central Association for Relief, 226–30, 227
Wright, Paulina Kellogg, 39
Zakrzewska, Marie
at birth of Nettie and Sam’s daughter, 191–92
Cleveland Medical College, 179, 180, 181
at dispensary, 177–79, 180–81
early medical career, 177–78
Fanny Kemble and, 208
fundraising and planning for infirmary, 198
at house on East Fifteenth Street, 194
at infirmary opening, 202–3
at New England Female Medical College (Boston), 222, 241
at New England Hospital for Women and Children, 241
photograph, 178
resident physician at infirmary, 204–5, 221
return to New York with degree, 191, 195