Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-07

are other English women who are working
practically as electricians.
The particular star among American
women electricians is Miss Bertha Lammc
Of Pittsburg, who is a full Pledged electro
cal engineer. with five years practical work
to her credit. Miss Lamme is on the staff
Of engineers for the Westinghouse Manu-
featuring company. She is a graduate Of
the Ohio university and is a native Of
Ohio, of Dutch ancestry. She designs ma
chinery, makes calculations and does cX-
actly the work OF a man electrical engineer.
She is between % and IS years old.
A woman who Is familiar with influence
machine coils, alternators, batteries. meters
and current controllers, as the majority Of
women are with bonnets and skirt extend
ers, styles and fashion kn~ickknacks, Is DT.
Margaret Cleaves, formerly OF Iowa, now Of
New York. In matters pertaining to the ap-
pliCation of electricity az a physicians agent
she occupies a place in public esteem like
that which Miss Lammc has won for herself
as an electrical engineer. In the words OF
an eminent authority, physicians, when they
use electricity, are also electrical engineers,
only their workshop holds problems of health
and of life and death. Like all people who
do the things that are really worth while do
ing, DIR. Cleaves keeps her " counsel as
to her achievements, and but for the inklings
let fall at the electrical headquarters where
she gets her apparatus, and the testimony
yielded by the pupils she has taught, her
ability would only be known to those di-
rectly concerned, the physicians she has as.
sisted and the patients she helped. She is
chief director in an exclusively electro-thera-
peutic clinic and instructs graduated physi.
clans daily and weekly in the principles Of
electricity as a curative medium. For eight
months in the year she is instructor and
preceptor and has turned out mere than fifty
women graduates in this electro-medica
branch of knowledge, and has assisted In
the instruction of men students who have
since established schools of their own along
the same lines. Gray-headed physicians OF
twenty-five years in active practice attend
this woman's clinic. These physicians come
from all parts of the country, from Oregon
and Washington, from Alabama and Ten
nessee and even from India. Dr.. Cleaves
also writes for the medical journals on sub
jects pertaining to her work and she has
devised various electric apparatus tending to
promote convenience in certain phases OF
treatment. These are recognized as of value
to the profession. DR.. Cleaves' proficiency
is additionally interesting because her col
lege and, later, her physicians course were
finished and complete some time before she
took up the study of electricity. y graduate
of the Iowa State university, she had gained
a name for herself and held various impor-
tant offices in state medical and charitable
institutions, both in Iowa and in Pennsyl-
vania before she turned to electricity as an
aid to medicine. She is unmarried, alb
sorbed in her profession and on every pos
sible occasion goes abroad fer further study
and experiment in electrical science. DR..
Cleaves was formerly instructor in electro
therapeutics at the Post Graduate Medical
school, the only woman to occupy a place
of the sort in any New York hospital.
There are fifty physicians in this country
having women assistants whom they have
instructed and who they say are efficient in
administering electric treatment. These
women are familiar with the electric arc bath
as a substitute for sunshine to a diseased
or ailing body. They know about hydro
electric applications, galvanic currents and
something about dose measurements. They
are not scientists, but, from constant ia
miliarity with electrical apparatus and its
manipulation. they are able to treat patients.
On the subject of women in electrical mat
ter9 it is of interest to know that one of the
five examiners in the electrical department at
the patent ONCE III washington 10 d "oLlah'
She has been at her post for many years,
| and was one OF the first women in the coun-
| try to study electricity as a science. Her
duties include the keeping track of all in
v~entions and applications for inventions re-
lating to electricity in any form, and she has
to have practical as well as scientific knowl-
| edge of the availability of the articles sub
mitted. Most of the patents granted 10
women in this department relate to medical
| appliance, some few to mechanical uses.