Philadelphia County Medical Society

75th Anniversary

• Author(s): Philadelphia County Medical Society

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1925
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Medical Record

• Author(s): George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1879
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at His Annual Session Held at ...

• Author(s): Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1858
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Medical and Surgical Reporter

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1894
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A New and Untried Course

• Author(s): Steven Jay Peitzman

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2000
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• Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Before 1850, the field of medicine was almost completely closed to women. In 1850, a group of radical reformist male Quaker physicians and associates founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania to offer formal medical training to women. By the 1890s, under the guidance of a series of pioneering women deans, the school grew into a progressive medical collegem re-named the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC). This development occurred despite the stubborn and at times near violent opposition of most of the male medical community of Philadelphia.