1894 · NY
by STEVENSON, Sarah Hackett
NY: Appleton, 1894. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 186 + adv. Two early library bookplates on the front end paper. Bound in maroon cloth stamped in black and gilt. Covers darkened, rubbed along the edges, a very good copy. After initial studies at the Women's Hospital Medical College in Chicago, Stevenson moved to London where she studied with Thomas Huxley at the South Kensington Science School. In London she beame associated with feminist publisher Emily Faithful. Returning to Chicago, she graduated in 1874 and was apppointed Professor at the Woman's Medical College. Later she was professor of Obstetrics at the Northwestern University Woman's Medical School and was the first woman physician at the Cook County Hospital. In 1880, together with Lucy Flowers, she founded the Illinois Training School for Nurses. In 1893, she became the first woman to be appointed to the Illinois State Board of Health and she was the first female member of the AMA. "The scope of this volume is this: beginning with the lowest form of vegetable, a characteristic sample of the typical forms of life as far as the vertebrate animals is analyzed... (Inventory #: 49617)