New York Medical College For Women 1869

 
 
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No. 187 Second Avenue, corner of Twelfth Street

Board of Trustees

 

Mrs. William H. Greenough, President
Mrs. Edward Bayard, Vice-President
Mrs. M.G. Lane, Treasurer
Mrs. C.F. Wells, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. F.G. Blinn, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Richard B. Connolly
Miss M.B. Dewey
Mrs. Vincent C. King
Mrs. J.W. White
Mrs. L. Mosely Ward
Mrs. George E. Vanderburgh
E. Cady Stanton
Mrs. A. Lynch Botta
Mrs. D. E. Sackett
Mrs. H. Pendleton
Mrs. L.L. Ropes
Mrs. K.H. Browning

Medical Faculty

Joel R. Andrews, M.D., Principles and Practice of Surgery
J.V.C. Smith, M.D., Anatomy and Physiology
Henry B. Millard, M.D., Theory and Practice and Therapeutics
William T. Okie, M.D., Materia Medica and Toxicology
Charles S. Stone, A.M. Chemistry
B. D. Penfield, Edq., Medical Jurisprudence.
Edward P. Fowler, M.D., Diseases of Chest
Anna M. Inman, M.D., Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
Mrs. C. S. Lozier, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Diseases of Women and DeanDispensary Faculty

The Medical Faculty, a Resident Physician and Graduates

Board of Censors

Edward Bayard, M.D.,
Mrs. S. M. Ellis, M.D.
A. S. Ball, M.D.
John F. Gray, M.D.
L. T. Warner, M.D.

 
Advisory Council

Horace Webster, LL.D.
Theodore Dwight, LL.D.
Hon. R. B. Connolly
L. Hallock, M.D.
Hon. Vincent C. King
Joseph G. E. Larned, Esq.
E.E. Marcy, M.D.,
Rev. H.A. Sackett
Hospital Commitee

Mrs. W.H. Greenough
Mrs. Vincent C. King
Mrs. Maltby G. Lane
Mrs. J.W. White
Miss C. Pierce
Miss L.E. Rushby
 

Graduates

1863-4

Miss Emily Shettler

1864-5

Mrs. Anna C. Van Ness
Mrs. E.D. Wright
Mrs. Eloise B. Smith
Mrs. Amelia G. Pollock
Mrs. M.F. Cooper
Mrs. M.A. Densmore
Mrs. Harriet E. Hall
Mrs. Annie E. Hall
Miss S.A. Barnett
Miss A.A. Manning
Miss Harriet Clisby
Miss Jane E. Spaulding
Miss Mary E. Tracy
Miss Adaline Williams

1865-6

Miss Sarah E. Bissell
Miss A. Elkins
Miss S.N. Williams
1866-7

Mrs. O. Fowler Smith
Mrs. Susan F. Pratt
Mrs. Gertrude Hammond
Mrs. Nancy M. Miller
Miss E. Jennie Pierce
Mrs. Alice J. Campbell
Mrs. F.R. Coddington
Mrs. Emily H. Stowe
Miss Mary H. Dunbar

1867-8

Mrs. H.N. Fairbanks
Mrs. A.C. Howland
Mrs. Mary C. Brown
Mrs. M.B. Fuller
Miss C.A. Loring
Miss Emily L. Manning
Miss Annie T. Nivison
Miss Hattie A. Dada

Sessions, Etc.

The sessions commence on the first Monday in November and continue twenty weeks. The opening exercises will be held at eight o'clock P.M. at the College. The test examinations will occur two weeks or more before the commencement exercises in the College. during the first week of attendance the Faculty shall ascertain the fitness in age, character, and attainments of all applicants for matriculation.

Applications may be made to the Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. C.F. Wells, 389 Broadway, or to C.S. Lozier, M.D., Dean of the College, 361 West Thirty-fourth street. Applications should be accompanied by a certificate of moral character, necessary attainments, and age. A preliminary  knowledge of Botany, Elementary Chemistry, and Latin being required, those not well versed in these studies can prosecute them here. They should however, be present and report to the Dean on the first of October.

Contributions

Any person donating the sum of two hundred dollars to the College shall be authorized to send one student to one course of lectures, with a free ticket to Bellevue Hospital. Any person donating five hundred dollars shall have the right to confer one scholarship, to extend through two full courses of lectures, covering all expenses. Ten thousand dollars will endow a Professorship. Persons otherwise fitted may be graduated by this Institution after having received two full courses of medical lectures at some legally chartered medical college, the last of which shall be taken at this College.

Text-Books

Anatomy-Gray, Wilson. Holden's Manual of Dissections. Theory and Practice-Watson, Reynolds. Materia Medica and Therapeutics-Hahnemann, Pereira, Gross, Beck. Bigelow's Medical Botany. surgery-Dewitt, Ericksen, Franklin. Chemistry-Turner, Bowman's Medical Chemistry, Taylor's Toxicology. Physiology-Dalton, Carpenter, Todd, Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Diseases of Women-West, Scudder, Byford. Midwifery-Cazeaux, Hodge, Ramsbotham. Medical Jurisprudence-Dean Taylor.

Terms and Fees

Matriculation Ticket ($5.00)
Demonstrator's Ticket ($5.00)
Professor's Fees ($105.00)
Charge For Diploma ($10.00)

Total: $125.00

The charge at Bellevue Hospital for Clinics is three dollars per session. Those in connection with the College and its Dispensary are free, as are also those at the Ophthalmic Hospital, and at the Eye and Ear Infirmary. The charge for lectures to nurses will be fifteen dollars.

Ladies who wish to pursue any of the branches taught can procure tickets to the lectures delivered by individual professors at fifteen dollars each course. Persons about to go out as missionaries may attend any or all the lectures without charge. Graduates of this institution hqave perpetual free admission to lectures.

Six capable and well-educated women, whose pecuniary means are limited, may be annually received on payment of matriculation and demonstration fees. Any person wishing to avail herself of this privilege will please send to the Dean an application in her own handwriting, accompanied by satisfactory testimonials. This arrangement will be strictly confidential, and no distinction will be made between these and other students. The Trustees will aid students in finding accommodation for boarding in clubs. Notice of a desire for such assistance should be previously given to the Corresponding Secretary.

A Dispensary has been established in connection with the College, which will be open every day except Sunday, where the poor who apply will receive medical treatment without charge, and where the students may have opportunities for observation and practice.

A free scholarship will be given to one graduate from each regularly chartered female college in this State. Thorough clinical advantages will be provided, and ample opportunity for dissections be given to all the class. Tuition fees must be paid one-half in advance, and the remainder before the holidays. No student will be graduated until all her liabilities to the College are settled and payment is made for diploma. Each candidate for the degree will be required to present to the Faculty and Censors, at examination, a thesis on some medical subject, written by herself, which thesis she shall read and defend before the Faculty, if desired.
 

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Article Name: New York Medical college For Women-1869
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: From my collection of books. Shannon's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York 1869
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