The effect of distention of the ventricle on the flow of blood through the heart IN American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 11, pp 215-224

1898.

1898 PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, OFFPRINT OF IDA H. HYDE, FIRST FEMALE RESEARCHER AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL--SIGNED BY HER.

9 1/2 inches tall offprint, string binding in printed paper wraps, age-toned, inscribed and signed on cover, "Mr. Robert W. Hall with the compliments of Ida H. Hyde". Figures of apparatus and recordings of tracings in black and white. Covers lightly soiled with closed tear to corner, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good.

IDA HENRIETTA HYDE (1857 - 1945) was an American physiologist known for developing a microelectrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue (truncated) chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. In 1871, the family home was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago, which destroyed the family business as well. Without any form of income, the children were forced into labor. Ida entered the work force at age 14 as a milliner's apprentice. Because of her age, older than that of her siblings, much of the burden of supporting the family fell on her. She worked as a teacher for a number of years, but in 1888 she was finally able to return to the collegiate scene at the age of 31. She enrolled at Cornell University and earned her BA in just three years. She was then offered a biology scholarship at Bryn Mawr College. She accepted and began under the tutelage of Jacques Loeb and Thomas Hunt Morgan. While at Bryn Mawr, she became the first female researcher at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Her work at Woods Hole caught the attention of a professor at Strasbourg University in France, who offered to accept it for a doctoral dissertation. At the time Strasbourg, however, had a strict "no women" policy. The professor, Dr. Goette, helped secure permission for Hyde to study at Heidelberg University in Germany instead. Though she was not allowed to attend lectures or laboratories, she became the first American woman to graduate with a doctoral degree from Heidelburg, in 1896. After more research at the University of Berne, Switzerland, she obtained a fellowship to Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first female researcher at Harvard Medical School. Her laboratory findings resulted in an article, The Effect of Distention of the Ventricle on the Flow of Blood through the Walls of the Heart, which she published in 1898 in the first issue of the American Journal of Physiology, 1898 MAR 01: 215-224 https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1898.1.2.215 (offered here). In 1899, Kansas University's Chancellor Francis H. Snow asked Hyde to help build its medical school. She did, and there she founded the University's Department of Physiology and served as Professor and Department Chair until her retirement in 1920. (Inventory #: 1168)