FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN NEW YORK.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2449, 10 February 1882, Page 3

FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN NEW YORK.

There are ten properly matriculated lady physicians here, who make on an average an income of SOOOdols. a year. One of the beat however, is a Doctor Jacobi, who is in professional as well as matrimonial partnership with her husband, and has a home that almost deserves to be called a mansion in the richness of its furnishing and appointments. She is a Putnam, and a direct descendant of staunch old Israel, of revolutionary fame. Mrs Jacobs is not what is called a "woman’s right woman,” but she thinks. many of their cherished doctrines would come to Jpass if they would first bend their energies on a point to which they give comparatively little attention : that of gaining the same educational advantages for women as are provided for men. Of course there are countless other women physicians in New York, but I limit myself to these of therogular school, and those whose education, experience, and talents have been recognised by the most eminent physicians of the opposite sex. One wonders why women have not evinced a more decided liking for the profession of dentistry, which oSers fewer obstacles in the way of ■ preparation and popular prejudice than that of medicine. Theleading dentist of Rueoia is an American woman living in St. Petersburg, and she has the honor of performing on the mouths of the Royal family. There are so fow women doctors in this country that it is difiloult to find out anything about them, Those in thiscity are mostly married women who help their husbands, and there is one fair quack who advertises "diamond fillings.”