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 2nd women to get her degree from there Medical practice NYC 2nd 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 1st 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) 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 Cases of Nervous Disease (1888) The Value of Life (1879) Am J of Obs & Dis of Women 1874 From Pepper’s System of Medicine 1888 Essays on Hysteria, Brain-tumor, and Some 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

Q5: What was Mary Putnam Jacobi famous for outside of medicine? 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