Blogging from A to Z April Challenge - Letter J

It's hard to believe the second week of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge is almost complete.

Mary Putnam Jacobi was a physician, women's rights advocate, and medical educator.Born in 1842, with the support of her parents, Jacobi received a degree from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1863 and graduated a year later from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then studied clinical medicine at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Seeking a higher level of training, Jacobi moved to France, where she received a degree in 1871 from the Ecole de Médecine.

When she returned to New York, Jacobi set up a practice and joined the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary as a professor of therapeutics and materia medica (a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing).

Jacobi was the first woman to be admitted to the New York Academy of Medicine and gained admission to many other medical societies. She also published nine books and more than 120 medical articles. In 1873, she married Dr. Abraham Jacobi, later known as the "father of American pediatrics." They had three children, but only one survived to adulthood. Before her death, Jacobi wrote an account of the onset and progress of the meningeal tumor that would claim her life.