The Cure For Women : Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi and the challenge to Victorian Medicine that changed women's lives forever

Reeder, Lydia

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After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, in 1849, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities such as Harvard, women built there own first-rate medical schools and hospitals. Their success spurred a chilling backlash from elite, white male physicians who were obsessed with eugenics and the propagation of the white race. Distorting Darwin's evolution theory, these haughty physicians proclaimed in bestselling books that women should never be allowed to attend college or enter a profession because their menstrual cycles made them perpetually sick. Motherhood was their constitution and duty. Into the midst of this turmoil marched tiny, dynamic Mary Putnam Jacobi, daughter of New York publisher George Palmer Putnam and the first woman to be accepted into the world-renowned Sorbonne medical school in Paris.