1. Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi M.D.

2. 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
1st woman in Academy of Medicine - by one vote

3. 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 ( )
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

4. System of Medicine by William Pepper (1888) in 5 volumes.
Mary Putnam Jacobi Pseudo-Hypertrophic Paralysis
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Infantile Spinal Paralysis

5. Q5: What was Mary Putnam Jacobi famous for outside of medicine?
Painter
Novels
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Musician
ANSWER: C – Women’s Suffrage Movement

6. 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

7. 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