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Title: Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Subjects: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Medical College of Pennsylvania Drexel University. College of Medicine Medicine--History Women in medicine Women medical students Yearbooks
Publisher: (Philadelphia, PA : Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania)
Contributing Library: Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center, Archives and Special Collections
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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f Penn-sylvania was first established as an outpractice maternity hospital inJanuary, 1888, by Dr. Anna E. Broomall. then ))rofessor of Obstetrics inthe college, and for twenty-three years it has provided trained medicalattendance for poor women in their homes. It is situated in the south-eastern district of the city, a crowded section with a large foreign popu-lation, made up chiefly of Russian Jews and Italians. As these foreignersare accustomed to employ midwives, and prefer the care of women, thisquarter of the city oflfers a particularly wide scope for the work of thehospital, which has been from the first carried on exclusively by women. From a .small beginning the numbers have grown until nearly sixthousand deliveries have been recorded, the annual average for the lastseven years being three hundred and fifty-seven, the students thus securing,under the supervision of the physicians in the department of Obstetrics,wide practical experience in maternity work before graduation. 44
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In order that the students might have still further opportunities inObstetrics in a hospital under the direct control of the college, the housewhich had formerly served as a base for the outpractice work, wasequipped and opened as a hospital for in-patients October i, 1903.Although the buildings are small, they have during the eight years ofhospital existence sheltered more than one thousand patients. Manyserious conditions have arisen for treatment, and last year threeCaesarean section operations were performed within seven months. The records of both hospital and outpractices show excellentresults, even when the cases must be conducted amid the most unfavorablesurroundings of poverty and dirt. Such experience is of incalculable value to young women who areabout to take up the practice of medicine. Obstetrics is a branch whichis particularly the province of women physicians, not only in the coun-tries of the Far East, where such cases can be attended only by women,but also in our own

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