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Mary Putnam Jacobi 1842 ~ 1906


Mary Putnam Jacobi
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi was born in
August, 1842, in London, England, daughter of George B. Putnam,
the well-known publisher. Her parents returned to this country
when she was quite young and she was educated in Philadelphia,
taking a course in the Women's Medical College of that city;
afterwards taking a course at the New York College of Pharmacy,
being one of the first women graduates of that institution. She
was the first woman to be admitted to the Ecole de Médecin
in Paris and received the second prize for her thesis. On her
return to America she immediately took up the work of having
women students placed on the same footing with men and received
on these terms in all medical societies.
In 1872 she read before the American Journal Association an able
paper, the first ever given by a woman. In 1873 she married
Doctor Abraham Jacobi, a distinguished physician and specialist
of New York City.
After her marriage she was known by the
name of Doctor Putnam-Jacobi. For many years she held the chair
of therapeutics and materia medica of the Woman's College of the
New York Infirmary and was afterwards professor in the New York
Medical College.
Mrs. Jacobi, in 1874, founded an association for the advancement
of the medical education of women and was its president for many
years. She has written much on medical and scientific subjects.
Doctor Putnam-Jacobi takes front rank among the women of
America, as her knowledge of medicine and its allied sciences is
profound and accurate and she has won a distinguished position
for herself among physicians and specialists of note.
Women of
America

Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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