Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jacobs, Harriet to Ednah Dow Cheney, 1867 April 25
File — Box 24: [Barcode: 310183630294733], Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Jacobs writes from Edenton, North Carolina about the activities and status of freed people after the American civil war.
Dates of Materials:
1867 April 25
New England Hospital for Women and Children records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00339
Abstract
Women's hospital. This hospital was, for more than a century, a teaching hospital for women doctors and a place where women could receive treatment from them. It was the first hospital in Boston to offer obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics all in one facility. Material includes memoranda, written histories, photographs and scrapbooks. Also documented are such topics as a 1915 controversy over abortion, using chloroform as an anesthetic, and African American interns. The collection...
Dates of Materials:
1792 - 1994
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- Hospitals -- New England 1
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- Legal documents 1
- Medicine -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
- Minutes 1
- Nursing -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
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- Physicians -- United States 1
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