Image: Scalpel - the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1911) (14589607400)

Description: Identifier: scalpel11woma (find matches) Title: Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Subjects: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Medical College of Pennsylvania Drexel University. College of Medicine Medicine--History Women in medicine Women medical students Yearbooks Publisher: (Philadelphia, PA : Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania) Contributing Library: Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center, Archives and Special Collections Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: i\lARTHA Tracy, M.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Laboratory of Chemistry. Frances C. VaxGasken, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate in Medicine. Text Appearing After Image: c< 1 ^S ^^^^J ^-• ^^^^^v. i II ^^^^ m^^^^ 1 mn The College in 1850. The Womans Medical College of Pennsylvania Some Historical Facts BY CLARA MARSHALL, M.D., Dean. As it was in the beginning, Dux femina facti, which, Hberallytranslated, reads, A woman was at the bottom of it, and that womanwas Esther Fussell, daughter of Bartholomew and Rebecca Bond Fussell,of Chester County, Pa., who was in her day and generation a remarkablewoman. She was herself interested in medicine and when her brotherBartholomew was old enough, she encouraged him to turn his attentionin that direction. He felt deeply grateful to her and when he graduated,he registered in his mind the purpose to do all he could for the sex towhich she belonged. I know, said he, she was more capable of study-ing medicine than ever I was, yet she could not do so on account of hersex. This matter took a deep hold of his mind, and to his beloved wife,Lydia Bond Fussell, he expressed the purpose of one day trying to opena medica Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Scalpel - the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1911) (14589607400)
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