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1 Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi MD 1842-1906
Physician, writer, suffragist B London to American parents, returned to NYC 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 1863 MD from the Female (later Women’s) Medical College of Pennsylvania 1864 École de Médecin of the Unv of Paris- grad 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

2 Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi MD 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 From Pepper’s System of Medicine 1888 Am J of Obs & Dis of Women 1874

3 System of Medicine by William Pepper in 5 volumes
. Mary Putnam Jacobi Pseudo-Hypertrophic Paralysis Mary Putnam Jacobi Infantile Spinal Paralysis

4 Early New York Neurology Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi MD 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 "Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage 1894 In 1894 the women's suffrage amendment to NY State constitution was repealed Subsequently & in protest, she was 1 of 6 suffragist who founded League for Political Education

5 Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi MD 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 10th 1906 Buried in Brooklyn

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