Item #004855 Babies' Ward: Physician's Report, read before the Ladies' Auxiliary Board of the Babies' Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, at its First Anniversary, Nov. 23, 1886. Sarah Jane McNutt.
Babies' Ward: Physician's Report, read before the Ladies' Auxiliary Board of the Babies' Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, at its First Anniversary, Nov. 23, 1886

Babies' Ward: Physician's Report, read before the Ladies' Auxiliary Board of the Babies' Ward of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, at its First Anniversary, Nov. 23, 1886

New York: New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1886. 4 p.: 1 woodcut illustration; 27 cm. The New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital was founded in 1882; today it is the New York University School of Medicine. The Babies' Ward was renamed the Babies' Hospital in 1887. The report by the doctor who oversaw the Babies' Ward, Sarah J. McNutt (1839-1930), includes the stories of individual children and their poverty-stricken backgrounds. Includes lists of the officers and managers (all women) with their addresses, as well as contributors to its support. McNutt was educated at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children by Doctors Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, and Mary Putnam Jacobi, and other early women physicians. She was instrumental in developing the New York Infirmary for Women and Children into a hospital and woman's medical college. In 1884 she was the first woman elected into the American neurological Association. In Good+ Condition: starting to separate along the horizontal fold; p. [1] is lightly soiled; p. 4 is soiled and sunned; otherwise, clean and complete. Good +. Item #004855

Price: $45.00