Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, 1829-1902: a Memoir

Boston: 1903. First edition. Approx. 9.25" x 6". 30, [2] pp. With 2 tissue-guarded plates of black-and-white photographic portraits showing Dr. Zakrzewska, c.1870 and 1896, advertisement slip on blue paper tipped-in at title page. Saddle-stiched in gray card wraps, title printed in black on upper cover. Diagonal crease at upper-right corner of pamphlet, minor wear and toning at edges, rusting to staples. Very Good. A scarce memorial publication dedicated to Polish-American physician and pioneering proponent of women in medicine Marie E. Zakrzewska, published by the Boston institution she founded in 1862. Zakrzewska had previously helped establish, with fellow-physicians Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children in 1857, where she served as resident physician and provided scarce clinical training to female students. She continued to advance those dual goals over four decades as head of the New England Hospital for Women and Children (now the Dimock Community Health Center) until her retirement in 1899. [cf. ANB] . Very Good. Paperback . (Inventory #: 39984)