She graduated and, at the age of 22, entered Women's Medical College studying to become a doctor. At the same time, she volunteered to provide nursing services to the immigrants and the poor living on New York's Lower East Side. Visiting pregnant women, the elderly, and the disabled in their homes, Wald came to the conclusion that there was a crisis in need of immediate redress. She dropped out of medical school and moved into a house on Henry Street in order to live among those who so desperately needed help. In 1893, she organized the Henry Street Settlement, otherwise known as the Visiting Nurse Society (VNS) of New York.
Her graduate medical thesis was titled The Eye and Its Appendages.Afterwards Cole interned at Elizabeth Blackwell's New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. Cole went on to practice in South Carolina, then returned to Philadelphia, and in 1873 opened a Women's Directory Center to provide medical and legal services to destitute women and children. In January 1899, she was appointed superintendent of a home, run by the Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children in Washington, D.C.. The annual report for that year stated that she possessed "all the qualities essential to such a position-ability, energy, experience, tact." A subsequent report noted that:
His mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3:00 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house. On December 2, 1886, he married his childhood and family friend Edith Kermit Carow. They had five children Ted, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents whose voice was recorded for posterity. Roosevelt’s 1901 saying “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries—not only in English but also in translation various other
B. Shortly after medical school, Cole moved to New York City and joined the staff of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, a hospital owned and operated by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn her MD. C. Blackwell soon established the Tenement House Service. The service intended to promote health in overcrowded slums, populated by poor--mainly black--people, by sending out a "sanitary visitor" to teach basic hygiene and child care. Cole became one of the first "sanitary visitors" in the program and worked in this capacity for many years.
She was forces to enroll at La Maternite, a highly regarded midwifery school, in the summer of 1849. While she was attending to a child, about 4 month after enrolling, she inadvertently splashed some pus from the child's eye into her own left eye. She contracted ophthalmia neonatorum. This caused her not to be able to work, study or even read. She eventually had to remove her eye which made it impossible to become a surgeon.
Enrique Garduno Meg Gudgeirsson History 17A October 16, 2013 A Midwife’s Tale In the 18th Century a women name Martha Ballard was living with her husband, Ephraim. They both moved to Hallowell, Maine where Martha lived through chaotic decades and the American Revolution. Ballard would write on her dairy about the things she did and happen in her life everyday. During the 20th Century Laurel Thatcher Ulrich did research and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and soon filmed a movie based on Ulrich book about the 18th Century in Ballard eyes. In 1785, Martha Ballard was 50 years old; she was a mother, midwife and a healer.
My Favorite Person In Medicine Elizabeth Blackwell Lacey Wilson Chemistry 1406 Mark Eley 11/13/2013 Abstract On January 23, 1849, a young woman walked across the stage of the Presbyterian Church in Geneva, NY. She was given the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Geneva Medical College. And she happened to be the very first woman to earn the degree at an American school. Her name was Elizabeth Blackwell. “If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.”- Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England on February 3, 1821.
Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing NUR 405 October 21, 2013 Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing The evolution of community and public health nursing goes back four centuries ago from the British settlers into the New World of America. Many events have led to the advancement of the nursing field after the American Revolution bringing public support for establishing government-sponsored boards of health (Stanhope & Lancaster 2012). Key health issues, perspectives, goals, roles, functions, community and public health partnerships will be discussed. The first influence was the complexity of medicine during the nineteenth-century. Many women performing nursing functions in the almshouses (medical care for all by the Elizabethan Poor Law provided minimal care, most often in almshouses supported by local government, sought to regulate where the poor could live as to provide care during illness) and early hospitals in Great Britain were poorly educated, untrained and often undependable (Stanhope & Lancaster 2012) .
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