Warriner, Henry, 118–19
Warrington, Joseph, 36
Webster, James
admission tickets to lectures, 50, 50
anatomy lessons, 45–46, 48–49, 53, 73
at commencement exercises, 76, 77
Willard, Emma, 36, 40
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 27
Woman’s Hospital (New York), 195–96, 199
Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary
closing of, 264–66
creation of, 237–39, 242–43
Emily as college faculty and administrator, 243, 247–48, 257, 262–63, 264–66
fire and rebuilding, 262–63
fundraising, 262
opening of, 243–45
program and faculty, 243, 247–48, 258–59
Woman’s Rights Conventions, 67–68, 126, 143, 186
Women’s Central Association for Relief, 226–30, 227
Wright, Paulina Kellogg, 39
Zakrzewska, Marie
at birth of Nettie and Sam’s daughter, 191–92
Cleveland Medical College, 179, 180, 181
at dispensary, 177–79, 180–81
early medical career, 177–78
Fanny Kemble and, 208
fundraising and planning for infirmary, 198
at house on East Fifteenth Street, 194
at infirmary opening, 202–3
at New England Female Medical College (Boston), 222, 241
at New England Hospital for Women and Children, 241
photograph, 178
resident physician at infirmary, 204–5, 221
return to New York with degree, 191, 195
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
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