Mary Jacobi, American Physician and Suffragette

Mary Jacobi, American Physician and Suffragette

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 - June 10, 1906) was an American physician, writer, and suffragist. She crusaded for the integration of clinical and laboratory studies and for scientific research on women's health rather than anectdotal evidence. Her work with reformers and suffragists made her a leading spokesman for women's health during the Progressive Era. She graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863 and earned her M.D. from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1864. After much negotiation, she was admitted as the first woman student to the École de Médecine of the University of Paris. She graduated in 1871 and received second prize for her thesis. After returning to the United States in the fall of 1871, she established a medical practice in New York City, became the second woman member of the Medical Society of the County of New York, was admitted to the American Medical Association, and became a professor in the new Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. In 1873, Mary Putnam married Dr. Abraham Jacobi. When she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she meticulously documented her own symptoms and published a paper on the subject titled Descriptions of the Early Symptoms of the Meningeal Tumor Compressing the Cerebellum. From Which the Writer Died. Written by Herself. She died in 1906 at the age of 63.

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