Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1801.5

SAMUEL GREGORY (1813-1872). Letter to ladies in favor of female physicians for their own sex Boston: The College, 1856. 2nd 48 pages; 24 cm

Samuel Gregory founded the New England Female Medical College in Boston in 1848. Originally called The Female Medical Education Society, the organization was first created to train women in midwifery and nursing. Gregory thought male midwives were improper, and believed women needed a real medical education in order to properly care for their own gender. This pamphlet was first published by the NEFMC in 1850, and this is the second edition. It argues the need for medically-educated women to be present in the medical profession in order to care for other women.