Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2165.5

ALETTA H. (ALETTA HENRIETTE) JACOBS (1854-1929) De vrouw : haar bouw en haar inwendige organen : aanschouwelijk voorgesteld door beweegbare platen en met geïllustreerden, verklarenden tekst : een populaire schets. Æ. E. Kluwer 1900 3rd edition. 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). 26 cm.

Aletta Henriette Jacobs was the first female doctor in the Netherlands and a feminist. She was born in Sappemeer on February 9, 1854 and died in Baarn on 10 August 1929. She was the daughter of Abraham Jacobs – Jewish medical doctor, surgeon, and obstetrician – and Anna de Jongh. On April 28, 1892, Aletta married Carel Victor Gerritsen, grain merchant and left-liberal politician, with whom she had a son who tragically died the day after his birth. She was the first girl in the Netherlands to attend a high school. She did her medical degree in 1878 in Utrecht and graduated on March 8, 1879. In September 1879 she established herself as a doctor in Amsterdam. In the journal of the Freethinkers Association The Dawn, she wrote her first article, a response to a brochure about women's suffrage. She encouraged the use of contraceptives to decrease the number of children in poorer households. She also advocated equal working conditions for women. This exceptionally rare work is listed in OCLC with only 4 locations worldwide: ours and 3 others in the Netherlands where the work originated.

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