109 “son excellente conduit”: Paul Antoine Dubois, April 29, 1850, Reel 46, LC.
109 “as soon as I can”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, c. January 21, 1850, Reel 72, LC.
109 “a real sororal gem”: Sam to Emily, February 20, 1850, Folder 96, Collection MC411, SL.
109 “son noble caractère”: Hippolyte Blot to Blackwell family, February 15, 1850, Reel 43, LC.
109 “I regard her course”: Marian to Charles and Eliza Lane, January 15, 1850, Folder 21, Collection A145, SL.
109 Currer Bell’s Shirley: Sam’s journal, December 27, 1849, Folder 90v, Collection A77, SL.
110 “Everyone will be prepared”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, March 7, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
110 Henderson’s discomforts: Emily to Sam, March 31, 1850, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
110 “I think I never”: Emily to Sam, April 7, 1850, Reel 74, LC.
110 “Farewell embryo Esculapius!”: Henry to Emily, April 27, 1850, Folder 96, Collection MC411, SL.
110 “infernal regions . . . free state”: Emily to Sam, April 7, 1850, Reel 74, LC.
111 “I can imagine you”: Elizabeth to Emily, June 5, 1850, Reel 74, LC.
111 “I have been placed”: Ibid.
111 “My intention”: Ibid.
112 “My kind young physician . . . roses”: Ibid.
112 “I beg Uncle”: Elizabeth to Charles and Eliza Lane, 1850, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.
113 “The most beautiful picture”: Elizabeth’s journal, July 3, 1850, Reel 47, LC.
114 “I wrote to him”: Ibid., June 25, 1850.
114 “only the embrace”: Ibid., July 3, 1850.
114 “feeling decidedly blue”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, June 1850, Reel 42, LC.
114 “the High Priest of water”: Elizabeth to John Dickson, December 15, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
114 “honest & good . . . things with you”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, June 1850, Reel 42, LC.
114 “something like one of our cotton manufactories . . . swallow it”: Ibid.
115 “Everybody seems . . . demands of the place”: Ibid.
115 “The abreibung”: Elizabeth’s journal, June 26, 1850, Reel 47, LC.
115 “too stimulating”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 163.
116 “It is a sad business”: Anna to Eliza Lane, August 31, 1850, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.
116 “That poor only eye”: Sam to Emily, October 21, 1850, Folder 96, Collection MC411, SL.
CHAPTER 8: LONDON
117 “I must go to bed”: Emily’s journal, June 5, 1851, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
117 “served up with its legs”: Emily to George, October 29, 1850, Folder 179, Collection MC411, SL.
117 “I wish I could acquire”: Emily’s journal, August 20, 1850, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
117 “I certainly have”: Ibid., August 24, 1850.
118 “If I get anything . . . of my disposition”: Ibid., June 15, 1851.
119 “You will be greatly pleased”: Henry to Elizabeth, May 5, 1851, Folder 134, Collection MC411, SL.
120 “terrible discharging tumour”: Emily’s journal, March 24, 1851, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
120 “I have been teaching”: Ibid., June 18, 1851.
120 “the dingy look”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, October 20, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
120 “I will not speak of him”: Ibid.
121 “a charming young Parisienne”: Anna to Eliza Lane, August 31, 1850, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.
121 “A little dark figure”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 169.
121 sounds, sights, and smells: “Twenty-four Hours in a London Hospital,” Household Words 2, no. 46 (February 8, 1851): 457–64.
122 terms of Elizabeth’s admission: St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Council minutes, May 23, 1850, 37, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Archive.
122 “Auscultation shows”: Elizabeth’s notes at St. Bartholomew’s, November 22, 1850, Reel 46, LC.
123 “Well we have our ‘Lady Doctor’ ”: Paget, Memoirs of Paget, 168–69.
123 “gentlemanly fellows”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, October 20, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
123 “Women so dressed out”: Ibid.
123 “I am prepared”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 170.
123 “Here there is no excitement”: Elizabeth to Samuel Dickson, December 15, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
123 “I must confess”: Elizabeth to Blackwell family, October 20, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
124 “neither hydropathy . . . rational course?”: Elizabeth to Emily, November 20, 1850, Reel 74, LC.
124 “that bedside knowledge”: Elizabeth to Samuel Dickson, December 15, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
124 “All the gentlemen . . . the boys”: Elizabeth to Emily, November 20, 1850, Reel 74, LC.
124 “people whose position”: Ibid.
125 “She is really”: Ibid.
125 “Such a tale!”: Bessie Parkes to Barbara Leigh Smith, November 13, 1850, CU.
126 “I cannot sympathise”: Elizabeth to Marian, December 24, 1850, Reel 76, LC.
126 “grand moral army . . . fetter them”: Elizabeth to Samuel Dickson, December 15, 1850, Reel 42, LC.
126 “I have forgotten”: Elizabeth to Marian, December 24, 1850, Reel 76, LC.
127 “with the most hearty”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 4, 1851, Reel 74, LC.
127 “Dear Lady Byron”: Elizabeth to Lady Byron, March 4, 1851, Reel 42, LC.
128 “My earliest ideal”: Lady Byron to Elizabeth, March 31, 1851, Reel 42, LC.
128 “But I do not desire”: Lady Byron to Elizabeth, March 27, 1851, Reel 42, LC.
128 “The oneness of dependency”: Lady Byron to Elizabeth, March 31, 1851, Reel 42, LC.
128 “Life opens to me”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 4, 1851, Reel 74, LC.
129 “To be nailed”: Gill, Nightingales, 228.
129 Embley Park: Ibid., 78.
129 “Walked much”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 185.
130 “Woman stands askew”: The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, Under the Direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner . . . (London: London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851), 6.
130 “Do you know . . . true communion”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 185.
130 “My own mind”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 4, 1851, Reel 74, LC.
131 “zeal and assiduity”: George Burrows, testimonial, July 16, 1851, Reel 46, LC.
131 “They have learned”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 187.
131 “I very nearly astounded”: Bessie Parkes to Elizabeth, July 22, 1851, Reel 43, LC.
CHAPTER 9: PRACTICE
132 “Miss Elizabeth Blackwell”: New-York Daily Tribune, September 12, 1851, 4.
134 “I think I have mentioned”: Elizabeth to Marian, March 8, 1846, Reel 46, LC.
134 “I do not think”: Anna to Eliza Lane, October 3, 1851, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.
134 “to married women”: Sun (New York), March 18, 1839.
135 “female pills”: Sun (New York), May 9, 1839.
136 “a monster”: Gunning S. Bedford, “Vaginal Hysterotomy,” New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences 2, no. 5 (1844).
136 “Nature is appalled”: Wonderful Trial of Caroline Lohman, 5.
136 “She has made enough money”: New-York Tribune, March 26, 1844, 2.
137 “this noted ‘Doctress’ ”: “Madame Restell, and Some of Her Dupes,” New-York Medical and Surgical Reporter 1, no. 10 (February 21, 1846): 158.
138 “The gross perversion”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 30.
138 “horrible cupidity”: New-York Tribune, April 30, 1841, 2.
138 “This announcement”: New-York Daily Tribune, September 12, 1851, 4.
138 “Blackwell Elizabeth, physician”: The Directory of the City of New-York, for 1852–1853 (New York: John F. Trow, 1852), 510.
139 “insolent letters”: Blackwell, Pioneer
Work, 190.
139 “I imagine you”: Emily to Elizabeth, September 28, 1851, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
139 “I fear this stupid”: Emily’s journal, August 29, 1851, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
139 “I am convinced”: Elizabeth to Lady Byron, March 2, 1852, Reel 42, LC.
140 “Now though it might”: Elizabeth to Emily, September 27, 1851, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
140 “I must tell you”: Emily to Elizabeth, September 28, 1851, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
140 “I came home tired”: Emily’s journal, October 4, 1851, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
141 “though the large majority”: Ibid., December 9, 1851.
141 “the Faculty deems it”: Frederick C. Waite, “Dr. Nancy E. (Talbot) Clark: The Second Woman Graduate in Medicine to Practice in Boston,” New England Journal of Medicine 205, no. 25 (December 17, 1931): 1195–98.
141 “I ask myself often”: Ibid., November 23, 1851.
141 “with higher objects”: Ibid., January 6, 1852.
141 “I think often my intense”: Ibid., January 8, 1852.
141 “It gives a wonderful zest”: Ibid., June 22, 1852.
142 “Send me a scrap”: Elizabeth to Emily, February 8, 1852, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
143 “The mother, forgetful”: Blackwell, Laws of Life, 78.
143 “physical conditions”: Ibid., 145.
143 “I believe that the chief source”: Elizabeth to Hannah Darlington, May 27, 1852, Reel 42, LC.
144 “These lectures”: Blackwell, Laws of Life, 5.
144 “She certainly has”: Emily’s journal, March 23, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
144 “Oh dear”: Elizabeth to Emily, 1852, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
144 “By the bye”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 9, 1852, ibid.
145 “A most extraordinary case!”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 195.
146 “That experience has been”: Marian to Emily, March 23, 1852, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
146 “his clear perception”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 9, 1852, ibid.
147 “I have marked out”: Emily’s journal, July 9, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
147 “So Milly is actually”: Elizabeth to Sam, July 18, 1852, Folder 62, Collection MC411, SL.
CHAPTER 10: ADMISSION, AGAIN
148 glass prosthetic glinted: Sam’s journal, June 4, 1852, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.
148 “From Wednesday noon”: Emily’s journal, July 24, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
148 “Her visit gave me”: Elizabeth to Lady Byron, August 5, 1852, Reel 42, LC.
149 “The men did not wear”: Emily’s journal, August 3, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
149 “a different country”: Ibid., July 24, 1852.
150 “Why Milly”: Ibid., August 11, 1852.
150 “I like the room”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 9, 1852, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
150 “warehouse for the destitute”: Oshinsky, Bellevue, 51.
150 “Now my dear”: Emily’s journal, September 1, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
151 “Yesterday I had . . . operation, & me”: Emily to George, September 2, 1852, Folder 120, Collection A145, SL.
151 “I shall certainly find”: Emily’s journal, September 2, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
151 “Rather different kind”: Emily to George, September 2, 1852, Folder 120, Collection A145, SL.
151 “The young Drs”: Emily’s journal, October 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
152 “They are all willing”: Emily to Elizabeth, October 30, 1852, Folder 165, Collection MC411, SL.
152 “I have introduced”: Emily’s journal, October 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
152 “I have today completed”: Emily to George, November 27, 1852, Folder 168, Collection MC411, SL.
153 “dirty little Chicago”: Emily to Elizabeth, undated, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
153 “external generative organs”: Emily’s journal, November 7, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
153 “I like Dr Brainard”: Emily to George, November 27, 1852, Folder 168, Collection MC411, SL.
153 “Doctor, you don’t”: Emily’s journal, December 1, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
154 “The Dr has no other”: Emily to Henry, December 5, 1852, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
154 “And so two weeks”: Emily’s journal, December 15, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
154 “I examined them”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 20, 1852, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
155 “would I believe admit”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 25, 1852, ibid.
155 “has liked me thoroughly”: Ibid.
155 “I would choose”: Emily’s journal, December 19, 1852, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
155 “I have come . . . carry them out”: Ibid., January 9, 1853.
156 “nothing more ghostly”: Sam’s journal, December 26, 1852, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.
156 “Her letters often”: Emily’s journal, January 14, 1853, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
156 “I do hope”: Emily to Elizabeth, 1853, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
157 “He said any young”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 25, 1852, ibid.
157 a dispensary: a free clinic: “Report on the Condition of the Dispensaries of the State of New York,” in Annual Report of the State Board of Charities for the Year 1897 (New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1898), 1:616–54.
157 “say, the New York Institution . . . it’s true”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 25, 1852, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
158 “I have often thought”: Emily’s journal, June 16, 1853, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
158 “He told me the trustees”: Ibid., May 7, 1853.
158 oyster supper: Henry to Sam, May 8, 1853, Folder 134, Collection MC411, SL.
158 “We had quite a merry”: Emily’s journal, May 8, 1853, Folder 180, Collection A77, SL.
158 “I do not feel perfectly”: Ibid., June 9, 1853.
158 “nervous oppressive discomfort”: Ibid., January 14, 1853.
159 “The future lies black”: Ibid., October 8, 1853.
159 “I find I shall have”: Ibid., November 27, 1853.
159 “It is too absurd”: “Throw Physic to the Dogs, I’ll None of It,” Chicago Tribune, November 30, 1853, 2.
159 “In behalf of”: “Letter to the Editor,” Chicago Tribune, December 3, 1853, 2.
160 “I am beginning to feel”: Emily’s journal, December 11, 1853, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
160 “That is the only student”: Sam’s journal, February 26, 1854, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.
160 “it was not often that roses”: Emily’s journal, February 17, 1854, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
160 “Emily is now Dr. Emily”: Anna Blackwell, “Elizabeth Blackwell,” English Woman’s Journal 1, no. 2 (April 1858): 98.
160 “The Principles Involved”: Ibid.
160 “not only successfully”: Sam’s journal, February 26, 1854, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.
CHAPTER 11: EDINBURGH
161 “Judging from the fine”: Emily to Blackwell family, March 30, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
161 Steamship Arabia: “The Royal Mail Steam-Ship ‘Arabia,’ ” Illustrated London News, January 8, 1853, 29.
161 “a little solitary”: Emily to Blackwell family, April 1, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
162 “The design of this institution”: First Annual Report of the New York Dispensary for Indigent Women and Children, 1855, Folder 50, Collection A145, SL.
162 “medical practitioners of either sex”: “The New York Infirmary for Indigent Women & Children, Minutes of the Board of Managers, Dec 1853 . . . ,” Weill Cornell Archive.
162 tacked a card: Elizabeth to Emily, April 20, 1854, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.
> 163 “pecuniary . . . for a time”: First Annual Report of the New York Dispensary for Indigent Women and Children (1855), Folder 50, Collection A145, SL.
163 “the people struck me . . . hedgerow”: Emily to Blackwell family, April 1, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
164 “another Dr. Blackwell . . . sérieux”: Emily to Blackwell family, April 15, 1854, ibid.
164 “The hills grew . . . touched with grey”: Emily to Blackwell family, May 10, 1854, ibid.
166 head of Zeus: McCrae, Simpson, 63.
167 “There was one . . . carriage”: Emily to Blackwell family, May 10, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
168 “surrounded by”: Ibid.
168 “I believe I shall”: Ibid.
168 “fast set”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 20, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
169 “most decent”: Emily to Blackwell family, June 24, 1854, ibid.
170 “I looked grave”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 2, 1854, ibid.
170 “He makes a physical”: Ibid.
170 “He has made in this way”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 20, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
171 “I have not seen”: Emily to Elizabeth, July 1854, ibid.
171 “Through August”: Emily to Blackwell family, July 7, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
171 “Period generally”: Anna to Emily, September 12, 1854, Folder 27, Collection MC411, SL.
171 gynecological remedies: Lady Northesk, 1850, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh archive.
171 “galvanic pessary”: Emily to Elizabeth, May 15, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
172 “I have yet to be”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 2, 1854, ibid.
172 he performed frequently: Emily to Elizabeth, July 24, 1854, ibid.
172 He inserted it: Sims, “On the Surgical Treatment,” 55.
173 “forthwith quitted”: “A Female M.D.,” Caledonian Mercury, September 25, 1854, 2.
173 “I wish while they”: Emily to Blackwell family, October 1, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
173 “ineffaceable hostility”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 11, 1854, Reel 74, LC.
173 “a joke which appeared”: Emily to Blackwell family, August 22, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
173 “He rather likes the novelty”: Emily to Elizabeth, September 4, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
174 “The whole case”: Elizabeth to Emily, January 23, 1855, Folder 65, Collection A145, SL.
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